If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. M.C. Escher, “Symmetry Drawing No. 85” (1952), ink, pencil, and watercolor, 10 1/2 x 8 1/3 inches (all ...

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. Visitors to ...

In what is being billed as the largest M.C. Escher exhibition ever, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is presenting more than 400 works by the beloved graphic artist, providing a fresh look to an ...

M.C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist known for his iconic optical illusions. His lithographs, woodcuts, engravings, and drawings expressed a high level of technical expertise and meticulous ...

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 ...

Math underlies many of the art pieces M.C. Escher created, because he was fascinated with the idea of depicting infinity in various ways, producing infinitely repeatable patterns known as ...

Check out Nigel Freeman’s appraisal of a 1951 M.C. Escher "Plane Filling I" with letter in Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms, Hour 1. Problems with Closed Captions? Closed Captioning ...

M.C. Escher spent most of his career being neglected by the artistic community. He spent the 1920s painting Italian landscapes to little fanfare, but a shift to what he called mental imagery led ...

Internally known as the “Mirror Sequence,” the scene took an MC Escher-like approach to the streets of Manhattan that also evoked Christopher Nolan’s Inception. Along with finding ...