Zen + mischief = MC Escher? The artist of impossible patterns, whose work combined playfulness with a quest for the infinite, is featured in a sparkling show in Edinburgh
A master of visual conundrums, impossible interiors, Ovidian landscapes and protean patterns, MC Escher has influenced a generation of artists, illustrators and animators.
One of the most famous optical illusionists in modern art is M.C. Escher. Known for his mind-bending perspective and metamorphosing shapes, Escher worked as a printmaker, draftsman, book illustrator, tapestry designer, and muralist. His fascination with “mental imagery” began after seeing the lavish tile work at the Alhambra, a 14th century palace in Granada, Spain. Since 1964, the Gallery has formed the preeminent collection of Escher's art outside of his native country, theNetherlands. The collection contains over 400 works including drawings, illustrated books, technical material, and impressions of his prints.
One of Escher's fascinations was the animation of an abstract concept. In "Reptiles," creatures come to life as they crawl out of the artist's depiction of a drawing, only to return to it. Escher wrote of this print, "evidently one of the reptiles has tired of lying flat and rigid amongst his fellows, so he puts one plastic-looking leg over the edge [and] wrenches himself free...."
How does this work exploit our understanding of the physical world to create an illusion?
"Reptiles," 1943, lithograph, Rosenwald Collection All M.C. Escher works © Cordon Art-Baarn-the Netherlands. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Maurits Cornelis Escher was a graphic artist, who lived between 1898 and 1972. He was an absolute master in drawing impossible situations and optical illusions. ‘Escher in the Palace’ (Escher in het Paleis) is a permanent exhibition in a former palace of the Royal Family in the historical heart of The Hague. What do you think of Escher's paintings?
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過去20年，我可能買過十幾本關於他的書-畫。
M. C. Escher was the son of a civil engineer and aspired to be an architect before shifting to drawing and printmaking.
This is one of Escher's earliest prints to explore different levels of reality. The first observed reality is the mirror itself and the objects that surround it. The second is that of the street, which in turn becomes part of the room by its reflection in the mirror. Finally, the objects in front of the mirror, by their reflection, become part of the street scene. At the same time the print presents a physical impossibility: the mirror is tilted toward the ceiling yet reflects the view of the street from the window on the opposite wall.
"Still Life with Mirror," 1934, lithograph
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All M.C. Escher works © Cordon Art-Baarn-the Netherlands. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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Graphic artist
M.C. Escher was born on this date in 1898. In his work, Escher repeatedly asked the question,
"Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?" His drawings tease the brain, twisting out and around and back in on themselves until the viewer can no longer distinguish top from bottom or whether the stairs lead up or down. They are proof that what you see is definitely not always what you get. Though he was not formally trained in math or science, mathematicians and scientists (especially
crystallographers) have studied Escher's works as fine examples of spatial illusions and
tessalations.
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"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check." —
M.C. Escher
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