Mc Escher Eye
Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) is one of the world's most famous
graphic artists. His art is enjoyed by millions of people all over the
world. He created visual riddles, playing with the pictorially logical
and the visually impossible.He is most famous for his so-called
"impossible structures", such as Ascending and Descending, Relativity,
his Transformation Prints, such as Metamorphosis I, Metamorphosis II and
Metamorphosis III, Sky & Water I or Reptiles.M.C. Escher,
during his lifetime, made 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings
and over 2000 drawings and sketches. Like some of his famous
predecessors, - Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer and Holbein-,
M.C. Escher was left-handed.Apart from being a graphic artist,
M.C. Escher illustrated books, designed tapestries, postage stamps and
murals. He was born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, as the fourth and
youngest son of a civil engineer. After 5 years the family moved to
Arnhem where Escher spent most of...
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