M.C. Escher

His parents! One noteworthy teacher at the school for the arts he attended in Netherlands was the notable artist Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita. De Mesquita might be more widely known, but his life was cut short in the Nazi death camps during WW2; Escher and other friends saved a few of his works overlooked by the Nazis.

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

While there is a relationship the Möbius strip, the basic structure that Escher used for the stairs and floors follows the Penrose triangle, or "impossible triangle," first designed by the mathematician Roger Penrose.

MC Escher subject matter was diverse and various. Sometimes it was optical illusions and sometimes it would be a self portraits. He pioneered the concept of tessellation in art.

M. C. Escher was famous for surrealistic drawings such as buildings with staircases that could not exist in the real world, going in impossible directions, or tiles made of reptiles (a pun, I guess) and so forth.

One of his sons, Arthur Escher, became a geologist and was Professor at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Another son, George Escher, was an aeronautical engineer at Dehavilland Aircraft in Canada and a mathematician.

He attended the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts. He studied architecture, but was unable to complete the course work due to health issues. He switched to Decorative Arts before beginning his travels.

The concept is Human Rights. Two spirals merge and portray the head of a woman and of a male, It is an endlessband, a double unity. I'm actually doing a research paper on it now for a college presentation. It, in my opinion, invokes humanity rights, that all peoples are created equal. Whether white, black, hispanic, asian, we are all created equally. This is evident in the bible as well. We are created in God's image, so therefore, we are all created equal. I mean comeon, LOL we all have the same organs XD

As the man and woman share organs and skin,it just simply states that we are all created equal;men to women, blacks to whites, even in religion.

We should all be able to enjoy the basic human rights because we are human, not because of our ethnic background or social class. And you could look up some of the amendments if you'd like. Our protected freedoms consist of;

physical security

bodily integrity

self control

peace

prosperity

belonging

property

identity

Thats all i can think of >.< that about sums t up though. WOAH! i typed up my whole essay points haha.

hope that helped.

His works feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations. They cannot be assigned to a particular style other than his own.

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No he did not. He became an artist while in college and did that for all of his life. He was supported by his family and some patrons.

Escher went to public schools in Netherlands. He did not do well in high school so his parents moved him to an art school called the Haarlem School of Decorative Arts. He initially studied architecture but later moved to graphic arts. His bio says that he entered high school in 1919 and left in 1922, so it is possible he did not graduate.

Escher contributed to the understanding and developement of crystallography by creating his own categorization system covering all possible combinations of shape, colour and symmetrical properties of colour-based division.

In Baarn, the Netherlands.

M.C. Escher's parents had four boys. M.C. Escher was the youngest born in 1898.

MC - Master of the Ceremony

The original MC's of the 1920's and thirties were simply the host of the evening. And as time went on, the MC became more and more entertaining to the point were people were attending extravagant concerts simply to see the MC.

-DJ Projekt

Generally the area 'halfway' between the viewer and the focus of the painting... the main component of the picture.

It seems he worked mainly on his own.

Yes, it's certainly appropriate. The purpose of good literature is to allow us to see a little about ourselves, a glimpse into the human condition and hopefully leave us with a motivation to improve our lives. Good literature will motivate us to empathize with the main character, to recognize our flaws as he discovers his, and to do whatever is necessary to fight our daemons.

Subject matter is what an art work has been created about. For example if you were to have a painting of a cow, then the subject matter is a cow.

Granada, Spain.

MC Escher was a slave owner/operator. He owned many slaves on a plantation. This is what gave him the time to come up with all of his interesting ideas. He would often create illusions to trick his slaves. He made an illusion of a stairwell over the fence to his cotton fields which tricked antique farm equipment into running up 10 steps and falling flat on their already short noses.

Maurits Cornelis Escher, more populaly known as MC Escher.

MC Escher made a series of etchings using space filling shapes - a form of tessellation, although not uniform tessellation.

Rippled surface is a piece of artwork by artist M.C. Escher in 1950. It is made from black and grey-brown linoleum cut to create a rippled effect.