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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 ...
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 created landscapes and portraits, with lush detail and appeal, even without a speck of color. But he's known for his logic puzzle art.
Seth Rogen recently quipped on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that he might lose his acting career if his early aughts audition for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s “Gigli” was ever to be made public. “The ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Often marginalized by critics during his life, M.C. Escher (1898-1972) is now famous for woodcuts and lithographs that roam the wild frontier of mathematics: images of rooms that warp and buckle ...