some bathroom floors and designs by artist M.C. Escher have something in common: they are composed of repeating patterns of the same shape without any overlaps or gaps. This type of pattern is ...

M.C. Escher (1898–1972 ... and the little lizard snorting smoke led it to be read as a marijuana tribute, à la “Puff the Magic Dragon.” (Escher did not, as far as we know, partake.) ...

Check out Nigel Freeman’s appraisal of a 1951 M.C ... in Escher, you have the repeating forms of the same object. So a-a fish will interlock with another fish and a repeating pattern.

Befitting its subject, “Virtual Realities: The Art of M.C. Escher from ... as when a sketch of a lizard yields a more lifelike lizard that crawls off the page. Escher referred to “Dragon ...

M.C. Escher isn’t known for his ... floating house. It reflects Escher’s explorations of tessellation, when he began to warp the limitations of reality. A town becomes a tessellated pattern then a man ...

M.C. Escher became a cultural touchstone during ... the Moors – with hundreds of thousands of square feet of abstract pattern tile work that turned him in the direction he would follow for ...

Math underlies many of the art pieces M.C. Escher ... in a tiled pattern that could occupy a whole plane, Schattschneider explains. She described this process in the book M.C. Escher: Visions ...

Another popular pattern is herringbone. (Try Googling that!) It’s a little like those flat, wooden geometric tiles for kids; the only limit of the patterns you can make is your imagination.

“M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity ... one of the man’s prints on the floor with the pattern of a soldier’s bootprint on it. Escher lamented, even as he made breakthroughs in his unique ...

Graphic artist M.C. Escher creates this image ... like a quilt pattern. Also in the exhibit that runs through March 25 is Escher's 1963 "Moebius Strip II." It features ants crawling around an ...