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Impossible paintings

Maurits Escher

Maurits Cornelis Escher(1898- 1972)

Maurits Cornelis Escher was a

famous graphic artist. He was born on

June, 17th, 1898 in the family of an

engineer. In 1919 he went to School

of architecture and decorative arts in

Haarlem, but he left it and started

drawing. During his life he travelled in

Europe a lot and painted his great

impossible works.

Up and down

He painted ordinary things in

fantastic and abstract way. For

example you can’t see such stairs in

real life and warriors don’t have a

chance to go up or down using it.

They have to go round.

FallsIt is considered to be one of the

best works by Escher. The falls is

painted as a perpetual motion

machine. The towers seem to be the

same hight but one of them has got

three floors and the other has got

only two floors.

A hand with a mirror sphere

It represents a self-portrait of the artist in an extraordinary way.

Lizards

The mosaic becomes alive. Some lizards appear, they move, live and return back.

He had many experiments with shapes, shadows.He was the master of illusion.

Day and night

Fish and birds

 

Look at it and say if the lines are parallel.

Nowadays there are a lot of artists who paint illusions. The illusion “Walls” by Richard Gregory can be seen in Bristol.

Impossible cube

What is wrong in the cube?

Where is the door opened inside or outside?

Look at the circles. They seem to be rotating. But they are immovable.

What is there in the painting?Can you see a baby in the painting?

What is the man dreaming about?