M. C. Escher – A Dutch Graphic Artist – Infinity, Architecture, and Tessellations
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“Good cannot exist without evil, and if one accepts the notion of God then, on the other hand, one must postulate a devil likewise. This is balance. This duality is my life… [I]t really is very simple: white and black, day and night — the graphic artist lives on these.” M.C. Escher.

The work of M.C. Escher has baffled audiences for many years. He created illusions that both thrilled the public and challenged at the same time. Mathematicians were fascinated by his techniques. Indeed, a major exhibition of his work took place at the International Mathematical Congress in Amsterdam in 1964. The duality that so interested Escher is evident throughout his most important works, that is his continued exploration of figure against ground, flat patterns versus three-dimensionality and the possibility of depicting the infinite and thus taking art into new realms of visual possibility.

Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898 — 1972), usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations.

In Maurits Cornelis Escher early years, he sketched landscapes and nature. He also sketched insects, which appeared frequently in his later work. His first artistic work, completed in 1922, featured eight human heads divided in different planes. Later around 1924, he lost interest in “regular division” of planes, and turned to sketching landscapes in Italy with irregular perspectives that are impossible in natural form.

He is most famous for his so-called impossible constructions, such as Ascending and Descending, Relativity, his Transformation Prints, such as Metamorphosis I, Metamorphosis II and Metamorphosis III, Sky & Water I or Reptiles.

But he also made some wonderful, more realistic work during the time he lived and traveled in Italy.

M.C. Escher, during his lifetime, made 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings and over 2000 drawings and sketches. Like some of his famous predecessors, – Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer and Holbein-, M.C. Escher was left-handed.