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M. C. Escher well-known lithography was
and is one of the most well known of the
society of optical illusionists, his
full name Marits Cornelis Escher grew up
and was born in the humble city of
Leeuwarden.
From 1919 to 1922 he studied at the
School of Architecture and Ornamental
Design in Haarlem, where he became
highly skilled in the technique of
woodcut. From 1922 to 1934 he lived in
Italy, then successively in Switzerland
and Belgium; in 1941 he settled in Baarn,
the Netherlands.
You could see the artist perspective
reflecting from the painting, the up and
down which able to trick your vision.
Escher’s
first images in this realm took the form
of elaborate patterns in which repeated
figures of stylized animals, birds, or
fish densely interlock, leaving no
spaces between the figures. From about
1940 his work became more fantastic in
its spatial effects. In images of
bizarre buildings, Escher ingeniously
toyed with the viewer’s perceptions,
creating such optical illusions as
staircases that appear to lead both
upward and downward in the same
direction. He also explored the
perceptual conflict created by a surface
that appears to be both flat and
three-dimensional. In the lithograph
Reptiles (1943), for example, parts
of a stylized pattern of interlocking
alligators seem to come to life, walking
off the edge of the paper. Although
Escher had no training in mathematics or
sciences, his precise and analytical
approach to the visual world has had an
especially strong appeal to
mathematicians and to
psychologists interested in visual
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Marits Cornelis
Escher
(1898-1972)
was born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.,
he was a Dutch graphic artist, who is
noted for his distinctive prints
depicting intricate interlocking
patterns and optical illusions. He was
especially accomplished in lithography
and wood engraving. Escher’s early work
consists mainly of landscapes and
townscapes, but beginning about 1936 his
work became increasingly concerned with
scenes of his own creation, especially
with the repeating patterns and spatial
illusions for which he is best known.
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