The late Dutch artist M.C. Escher is perhaps best known for his tessellations that fool the eye, like “Sky and Water I,” where birds in the air trade off negative space with fish underwater. But there ...

Maurits Cornelis Escher saw the world differently. The Dutch artist created a few dozen images that, because of his peculiar perspective, have endured. But many of those images — two hands drawing ...

On the printed page of an art book or magazine, Escher’s work acquires a hard, mechanical coldness that exaggerates certain tendencies in his work, principally his overpowering search for visual order ...

Let there be no mistake about it. Many of the pictures that now routinely appear in print are no more than pictorial aids to reasoning, graphical sketches intended to suggest or persuade rather than ...

M.C. Escher (1898–1972), an artist of enigmas, has this larger enigma about him: He is inexplicably overrated or inexplicably underappreciated, depending on how you look at him. Like one of his ...

AKRON, Ohio -- We're all familiar with the mind-blowing winding staircases, goggle-eyed fish and interlocking patterns and puzzles of Dutch artist M.C. Escher. But there's so much more to the artist - ...

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When we spoke with Nasher Museum of Art director Sarah Schroth for the museum’s 10th anniversary, she noted that, while she loves contemporary art, it doesn’t speak to everyone. That’s one reason she ...

Art usually presents us with incontrovertible facts. Abstract canvas or marble bust, representational drawing or fanciful relief all fix a specific image in a specific way for all time. And then there ...

Check out Nigel Freeman’s appraisal of a 1951 M.C. Escher "Plane Filling I" with letter in Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms, Hour 1. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...

When Mick Jagger wrote a letter to Maurits Cornelis Escher asking to use his artwork on a Rolling Stones LP, the rock star’s request was answered with a brusque lesson in etiquette. “Please tell Mr.

To complement the M.C. Escher retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), TASCHEN is allowing you to construct the artist’s riddles in the palm of your hands. M.C. Escher. Kaleidocycles ...