M. C. Escher
Master Tessellator
One such inspired visitor to the Alhambra was the Dutch graphic artist,
M. C. Escher. He visited the Alhambra in 1936 and ever after devoted
himself
to the creation of perplexing and transformational tessellations.
Escher
confronts us with visual and mental paradoxes: two hands drawing each
other,
people physically adjacent of stairways, but never meeting because of
the
separate dimensionalities of their common environment; the infinitely
looping
Mobius strip, lizards leaving their tessellating surface and then
crawling
back in. Escher studies metamorphosis many times over: birds to fish to
insects to blocks, triangles, clouds and water, day and night, black to
white, etc.
All M. C. Escher works (c) Cordon Art B.V.-Baarn-the
Netherlands. Used with permission.
Visit Escher on
the web.
An Escher book for all ages:
The Pop-Up Book of M. C. Escher
Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1991
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