M.C. Escher created 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings before he died in 1972. He also illustrated books and designed postage stamps, murals and tapestries.

The late Dutch artist M.C. Escher is perhaps best known for his tessellations that fool the eye, like “Sky and Water I,” where birds in the air trade off negative space with fish underwater ...

M.C. Escher Was Not a Fan of The Rolling Stones But Mick Jagger sure liked Escher. He even wrote a letter to him asking for permission to use one of his mind bending images for an album cover.

M.C. Escher 's works tend to evoke two reactions. First, you want to stare at them all day to unlock their mysteries. Second, you never want to meet their creator at a cocktail party.

Robin Lutz’s joyful and kaleidoscopic documentary “M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity” took me back to the days when I was in junior high in the early ’70s, and I would go downtown to visit ...

M.C. Escher (1898–1972), an artist of enigmas, has this larger enigma about him: He is inexplicably overrated or inexplicably underappreciated, depending on how you look at him.

Arts Akron Art Museum rescues the popular M.C. Escher from being obscured by his reputation in 'Impossible Realities' show Updated: Feb. 20, 2011, 1:45 p.m. | Published: Feb. 20, 2011, 12:45 p.m. By ...

Visual Realities: The Art of M.C. Escher from the Michael S. Sachs Collection runs March 13-September 5 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Weiss Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet.

M. C. Escher, Horsemen (1946). Photo: courtesy Christie’s. As the auction title suggests, the sale featured many of the mind-bending works for which Escher is best-known.

M.C. Escher, “Mummified Priests” (1932), lithograph, 8 x 10 4/5 inches During this time, Escher was still a naturalistic illustrator, rather than the optical illusionist he would become.

M.C. Escher — he of never-ending stairwells, fish morphing into flowers, hands drawing one another, expert use of glass globes, and math-minded imagineer of infinite nesting universes — is an ...

M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity Not rated. In English, Dutch, Italian and German, with subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 21 minutes. In theaters and on virtual cinemas.