M.C. Escher

Eschers skull in the eye reminds us of mortality. He is teasing us with the one who watches over all of us, the fate of each of us, death. There is no great expanse of life for us all, just the small time we have, constantly being watched by death just drawing nearer to our destinies.

In fact Escher is an illusion artist, so the picture is therefore an illusion- you are looking into the eye of someone and seeing write through to their skull which is obviously impossible so forth creating the illusion.

yes escher had a parrot a cat a dog a mouse

In the mid 1930s.

The C in MC Escher stands for Cornelis. His full name is Maurits Cornelis Escher.

Well probably he got influenced because he wanted to do something like art to enjoy with himself.And when he kept doing it, He got so good that he wanted to publish it.

M.C. Escher graduated from the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem, Netherlands, in 1922. Although he initially studied architecture, he shifted his focus to graphic arts, which ultimately defined his career as a renowned artist known for his intricate and mathematically inspired works.

M.C. Escher's last significant works were created in the late 1960s. He experienced health issues that affected his ability to work, and by the early 1970s, he had largely ceased painting. Escher passed away in 1972, marking the end of his artistic output.

*face palm*

he made amazing almost 3D, imposible, and minding bending art with absolutly no mathmatic training

iilusions

Escher uses texture in his work to express his feelings for art and math

He found them interesting and fascinating. He enjoyed working with them and creating the interconnected patterns.

Artists choose their subjects for reasons seldom known to us.

Look for his book M.C. Escher: The Graphic Works. It contains many of his works with in introduction and comments by the artist.

No, scream was not painted by MC Escher. It was painted by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. Munch worked on various versions of the painting over about a 20 year period, so several versions exist.

He was the youngest son of civil engineer George Arnold Escher and his second wife, Sara Gleichman.

Tessellations incorporate art into mathematical patterns.
Escher was fascinated by topography, the study of surfaces, a branch of mathematics. In many of his works, he uses the concept of the Penrose triangle, or "impossible triangle," first designed by the mathematician Roger Penrose. There is also a relationship to the Möbius strip, the single sided loop of material. Escher also used a technique that mathematician study called tesselation.

he did

"Mauk"

I will quote Escher's comment on this print. "The pupil reflects the one that watches us all."

In 1919, Escher attended the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts. He briefly studied architecture, but he failed a number of subjects (partly due to a persistent skin infection) and switched to decorative arts.

Jetta Umiker.

M.C. Escher, during his lifetime, made 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings and over 2000 drawings and sketches.