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M.C. Escher

The Mathematical Art of a Graphic Artist1898-1972

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M. C. Escher was born in the Netherlands.

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Escher studied architecture, but he failed a number of subjects and switched to decorative

arts.

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Escher was a printmaker who enjoyed making woodcuts. This is a self portrait Escher made.

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Still Life with Street was the first print he created in 1937.

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Escher loved making landscapes.

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He created art from his imagination.

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He thought it was more creative to draw what you remembered, than to draw what you were

looking at.

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He created impossible worlds from his imagination.

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Why is this room impossible?

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M. C. Escher created many self portraits.

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Many times he looked into a mirrored ball to draw himself.

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This is a double self portrait. Can you see Escher twice?

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Do you see the skull?

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Another impossible drawing!

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Many of his pictures use repeated tilings called tessellations.

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In a tessellation, all the space is used up.

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When one shape ends another on begins.

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Escher made this tessellation like the mirror ball. Objects are large in the center, and

smaller towards the edge.

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This one is the opposite; smaller in the center and larger on the edges.

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How do you see this one?

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Escher’s work is well liked by mathematicians and scientists

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They love the way he distorts reality.

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Impossible?

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During his lifetime he created over 150 pieces of art!

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M. C. Escher’s art continues to amaze, wonder and fascinate millions of people all over the

world.