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M.C. Escher
Meet the Artist...
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Born in June 1898
Birthplace was Leeuwarden, Holland
Died in March 1972
Maurtis Corneille Escher
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Hand with
Reflecting Sphere
Lithograph
1935
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His work continues to fascinate both young and old across a broad spectrum of interests
Intricate repeating patterns, mathematically complex structures, spatial perspectives all require a “Second Look”.
M.C. Escher
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1938 / Woodcut
Printed in black and gray from 2 blocks
Negative and positive designs transforming into different objects are noted techniques of Escher’s work.
Day and Night
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Day & Night
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Studied at Harlem’s School of Architecture and Ornamental Design.
He mastered the techniques of graphic art after he left school in 1922.
Escher continued to devote himself to studying graphic materials.
M.C. Escher
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Lithograph -- 1956
He was a man that was studied and greatly appreciated by respected mathematicians and scientist.
Escher did not have any formal training in math or science
M.C. Escher
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Ascending
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Descending
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Escher composed ironic works, often visual riddles that play with the pictorially logical and the visually impossible
M.C. Escher
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Relativity
Lithography -- 1953 Woodcut -- 1953
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Escher was a humble man who considered himself neither an artist or mathematician.
His works achieve their visual puzzles through his clever manipulation of positive and negative space.
M.C. Escher
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1961
Lithograph
This drawing is connected in such a manner as to reproduce an impossibility.
Waterfall
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Waterfall
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Sky & Water I
Woodcut
1938
Escher draws the illusion in where the negative space becomes dominant and transforms into the new object
M.C. Escher
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Sky & Water I
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Escher noted that although he lacked formal training in the exact sciences, he often found that he had more in common with mathematicians than with other artist.
M.C. Escher
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Reptiles
Lithograph -- 1943
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Mathematical concepts played a major role in Escher’s planning of many prints.
His precise detailed prints and lithographs base their impossible pictures on the solid ground of perspective, but they have been design to fool the eye.
M.C. Escher
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Butterflies
1948
Ink & Watercolor
Three colored butterflies flutter around, or is it six differently colored butterflies?
Symmetry E70
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Symmetry E70; Butterflies
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1955
Lithograph
This picture of a woodland pond is made up of three elements.
Can you name all three?
Three Worlds
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1 - The autumn leaves which show the receding surface of the water
2 - the reflection of three trees in the background
3 - The fish in the foreground seen through the clear water
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Drawing Hands
One of Escher’s most recognized prints.
No artist before or after Escher has to turn flat surfaces (drawings) into such spatial perplexities.
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“Drawing Hands” Lithograph 1948
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Graphic artist M.C. Escher is best known for his surrealistic compositions that give the viewer a sense of simultaneously looking at a scene from several different perspectives.
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