After posting about my silly little fascination with Rabbit Duck and using an Escher print as an extreme example of the illusion technique, I thought it would be good to write about Escher and show some of his work.
Maurits Cornelius Escher ( June 1898 – March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who was inspired by the mathematics of the world, including those found in architecture. Though he was not a mathematician, he did spend a lot of time with many notable ones, reading their books and papers and discussing theories. He travelled extensively, studying buildings and nature and recording his observations with many drawings and illustrations.
Though he was an excellent illustrator, much of his work was done on woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints, as a way of producing multiple images. I particularly like his impossible scenes, as in figure 5, "Waterfall", which depicts a canal and waterfall in a building that is, of course, impossible in nature.
Escher with his wife, Jetta, on their travels
Drawing on Paper
Who drew who?
Fowl or fish?
This has always been one of my favourite pieces
This would make an awesome tattoo if you could get that much detail on a person's skin
Escher Museum in The Hague, Netherlands
The tessellation which I used in my post titled "Rabbit Duck"
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