Recently, while browsing the vast and infinite spaces of Internet, by pure accident I walked into a site that had an illustration made by M. C. Escher used in the article. Maybe I’m weird or something, but I’ve never seen his works before and even if I did, I didn’t know that it’s him. Anyway, I liked the picture so much I decided to take a deeper dive into the topic – what I found was a beautiful, abstract world made with psychedelic pictures based on mathematical formulas, visual tricks and skewed grids that made a great impression on me. Since I find his works very inspiring and I’m sure there are still people out there who haven’t seen his works, I decided to share some of it on my blog.
Who was M. C. Escher?
I will quote Escher’s biography on that:
Maurits Cornelis Escher was born in The Netherlands in 1898, the youngest son of an engineer. He was an indiferent student who especially disliked mathematics and barely graduated from high school. At the urging of his parents he pursued studies in architecture, but he soon gravitated to the arts and devoted the rest of his life to making lithographs and woodcuts. “I am a printmaker, heart and soul”, he said.
Currently, most of his works are available for the public in Escher’s Museum in Hague (that’s one of the places I have to see as soon as possible).
Escher’s work
Escher’s work was made using classic woodprinting, lithography and mezzotints (he made exactly eight of those). He didn’t draw or paint except for the rough sketches that were made just to grasp the idea – all the ideas afterwards were developed using the printing techniques described above.
Enough of the theory – it’s time for the juice – inspiring pictures (click on the images to see the bigger versions).
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