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

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.

As “M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity” reveals, the answer is yes. Escher’s work meshed, to an uncanny degree, with the trippy aesthetics of the counterculture, as much as “The Lord of the ...

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.

It's rare for an institution to produce three shows on an artist within a decade. But it's happening at the Portland Art Museum with "Virtual Worlds: M.C. Escher and Paradox," the latest exhibit ...

M.C. Escher created landscapes and portraits, with lush detail and appeal, even without a speck of color. But he's known for his logic puzzle art.

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 ...

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.

The easiest way to describe the Monument Valley, a game released today on iOS, is as something like an interactive version of an M.C. Escher print.

If you’re not already familiar with the works of illustrator Maurits Cornelis Escher (better known as M.C. Escher) through jigsaw puzzles or poster sales ...