M.C. Escher (impossible constructions)

Maurits Cornelis Escher 1898- 1972

Maurits Cornelis Escher was a Dutch graphic artist.
He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, litographs, and mezzotints.
These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessalations.
Escher is one of the world's most famous graphic artists.
His art is enjoyed by millions of people all over the world.
He is most famous for his so- called impossible structures, such as ascending and descending, relativity, his transformation prints such as metamorphosis, sky and water, and reptiles.
During the time he lived and travelled in Italy, he made more realistic works as "Castrovalva" in which you can already see his fascination for high and low, close by and far away.
Apart from being a graphic artist, M.C. Escher illustrated books, designed tapestries, postage stamps and murals.
His teacher was Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita.
Escher became fascinated by the regular division plane when he visited the Alhambra
(a fourteen century Moorish castle in Granada) and made 137 regular division drawings.
Escher played with architecture, perspective, and impossible spaces.

Quote by M.C. Escher:

"What i give form to in daylight is only 1% of what i have seen in darkness"

link to the official website of M.C. Escher http://www.mcescher.com/

link to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher

Intervieuws part I, II and III by kind permission of the M.C. Escher compagny bv http://www.mcescher.com
(thanks Margareth)

music by Händel

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[xXDalamarTheDarkXx]

! nicely done!

What morph are you using btw?

[meesterschilders]

@xXDalamarTheDarkXx thanks, i'm using diphso

[kkkociak]

I am blond, but .... génial ! 5*

[meesterschilders]

haha...love the way blondines make clever remarks

[MITQUAM]

Thanks to Afik1945 for this great, great vídeo. I love Escher`s pictures very much.

Congratulations to Meestersschilders! I`ll take it as favourite.5* and a hug from Porto. Maria Inês.

[meesterschilders]

thanxs for the hug Maria

[alala682]

i hear voices

[JazzKeyboardist1]

escher scares stephen king

[EuBieberlove]

Qe cosas mas raras :B Pero estan chulas

[EuBieberlove]

Qe cosas mas raras :B

[Amorstopineed]

du you know the video game black mirror? it seems, its the music from the last chapter (mirror catacomps)

[Amorstopineed]

creapyyy...reallyy

[Polaf3456]

None of these are impossible they are just ideas way ahead of our time.

[Dragonenforcer15]

Wher'd you get the audio? :D

[maisqpoesia9999lcg]

Beautiful!!!!!

[GBPaddling]

Now THIS is ART,not like most of that over-rated poncey bollocks by Monet and Piacasso and the like.This is fantastic,along with Dali they are amongst the best.