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 ...

Interlocking birds that morph into fish, and back again. Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher’s iconic, trippy images have mesmerized many a mathematician, college student ...

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 ...

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. Like one of his ...

If you’re of a certain age, the mere mention of the name M.C. Escher can nudge you into a heady swirl of nostalgia. Robin Lutz’s joyful and kaleidoscopic documentary “M.C. Escher ...

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 ...

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 ...