M.C. Escher developed a singular graphic practice around tessellation, impossible architecture, transformation and the visualization of mathematical ideas. Working primarily in woodcut, lithography and mezzotint, he built images in which space loops, gravity shifts and figure-ground relationships become unstable.
Printmaking; drawing
Major Works
- 1935Hand with Reflecting Sphere
- 1938Day and Night
- 1938Sky and Water I
- 1953Relativity
- 1948Drawing Hands
- 1960Ascending and Descending
- 1958Belvedere
- 1939–40Metamorphosis II
- 1956Print Gallery
- 1961Waterfall
Interviews & Writing
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