The brilliance of Escher

Day and Night 


 
Three Worlds

 
Sphere Spirals in black, yellow and pink: woodcut
 
 Waterfall

 M.C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist who conceived of unbelievable worlds. He made hundreds of drawings, etchings, linoleum prints and woodcuts. We see in his works a mathematical precision, a preoccupation with contrasts of light and dark, and a perfection of execution rarely found anywhere, in any medium. He played with planes and shapes, so as to achieve impossibilites as revealed in his works Ascending and Descending and Metamorphosis. He was preoccupied with interlocking shapes that could be reproduced to infiinity. Using highly detailed technique and with a mind for perfection, he produced extraordinary and wonderful woodcuts and drawings. He largely made works that depended purely on his imagination--even his works of still life, self portraits, buildings and architecture such as of Rome and the Roman countryside are a testimony to his skill in putting together such involved and complex imagery as to boggle the mind!
























Contrast (Order and Chaos)

 

Relativity


The Sixth Day of Creation

 
Castrovalva (lithograph)

 
The Bridge 

 
 Hand with Reflecting Sphere (lithograph)
 
 
The above two are from his Symmetry series.
 
Self-portrai: woodcut
 
 Self-portrait in Linoleum with shades of grey, light blue and black.
 
Sea shell:woodcut