M'C' Escher,

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M.C. Escher, Spatial Illusions and Tessellations

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Biography.

• M.C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist, most
  recognized for spatial illusions, impossible
  buildings, repeating geometric patterns
  (tessellations), and his incredible techniques in
  woodcutting and lithography.
• Born June 1898, died March 1972.
• M.C. Escher was a man studied and greatly
  appreciated by respected mathematicians,
  scientists and crystallographers yet he had no
  formal training in math or science.

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Quotes.

• I am always wandering around in enigmas. There
  are young people who constantly come to tell me
  you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the
  slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been
  doing this work for thirty years now
• I don't grow up. In me is the small child of
  my early days I play a tiresome game
• The things I want to express are so beautiful
  and pure So let us then try to climb the
  mountain, not by stepping on what is below us,
  but to pull us up at what is above us, for my
  part at the stars amen

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Early Work 1916-1922.
Paradise 1920 woodcut, second state counterproof
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Early Work 1916-1922.
Eight Heads, basic block 1922 woodcut
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Italian period 1922-1935.
Mumified Priests in Gangi ? Sicily 1932
Lithograph ?Tower of Babel 1928 woodcut
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Italian period 1922-1935.
Castrovalva 1930 Lithograph
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Italian period 1922-1935.
?The Bridge 1930 Lithograph ?Portrait of Jetta
1925 woodcut
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Switzerland and Belgium 1935-1941.
Metamorphosis I 1937 woodcut printed on 2 sheets
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Switzerland and Belgium 1935-1941.
Development 1 1937 woodcut
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Switzerland and Belgium 1935-1941.
Development II, 1939 first version, woodcut
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Switzerland and Belgium 1935-1941.
Development II 1939 woodcut in brown, grey-green
and black, printed from 3 blocks
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Switzerland and Belgium 1935-1941.
Day and Night 1938 woodcut in black and grey,
printed from 2 blocks
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Switzerland and Belgium 1935-1941.
Metamorphosis II 1940 woodcut in black, green
and brown, printed from 20 blocks on 3 combined
sheets
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Switzerland and Belgium 1935-1941.
Sky and Water I 1938 woodcut
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Switzerland and Belgium 1935-1941.
Cycle 1938 Lithograph
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Back in Holland 1941-1954.
Balcony 1945 Lithograph
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Back in Holland 1941-1954.
Magic Mirror 1946 Lithograph
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Back in Holland 1941-1954.
Three Spheres II 1946 Lithograph
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Back in Holland 1941-1954.
Relativity 1953 Lithograph
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Back in Holland 1941-1954.
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Back in Holland 1941-1954.
Concentric Rinds 1953 wood engraving
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Back in Holland 1941-1954.
Drawing Hands 1948 Lithograph
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Recognition and Success 1955-1972.
Rind? 1955 wood engraving and woodcut in black,
brown, blue-grey and grey, printed from 4
blocks Bond of Union ? 1956 Lithograph
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Recognition and Success 1955-1972.
Whirlpools 1957 wood engraving and woodcut,
second state, in red, grey and black, printed
from 2 blocks ?
Circle Limit III ? 1959 woodcut, second state, in
yellow, green, blue, brown and black, printed
from 5 blocks
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Recognition and Success 1955-1972.
Ascending and Descending 1960 Lithograph
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Recognition and Success 1955-1972.
Belvedere 1958 Lithograph
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Recognition and Success 1955-1972.
Waterfall 1961 Lithograph
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Recognition and Success 1955-1972.
Moebius Strip I 1961 wood engraving and woodcut
in red, green, gold and black, printed from 4
blocks
Moebius Strip II 1963 woodcut in red, black and
grey-green, printed from 3 blocks
Knots 1965 woodcut in red, green and brown,
printed from 3 blocks See clockwise
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Symmetry.
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References.

• http//www.mcescher.com/
• http//www.worldofescher.com/
• http//www.etropolis.com/escher/
• http//www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathem
  aticians/Escher.html
• http//marie.epfl.ch/escher/
• http//home.comcast.net/eschermc/
• http//windshoes.new21.org/art-escher.htm
• http//no-smok.net/nsmk/GoedelEscherBach