Escher
Lithographs defy geometry
Escher refers to M.C.
Escher, the Dutch graphic artist known for mathematically inspired works featuring impossible constructions, tessellations, and visual paradoxes.
His images of endless staircases, morphing shapes, and hands drawing themselves have made his name shorthand for any visual illusion or spatial impossibility: The building's layout was positively Escher-like.
Surface-covering arrangement
- mosaicInlaid pictorial arrangement
- interlockingEngaging by overlap
- patternRecurring arrangement or template
- repetitionAct of redoing
metamorphosis · symmetry · motif · transformation · figure-ground · wallpaper · coverage · lattice
Stone-based printing method
- woodcutRelief print from timber
- printmakerArtist using pressed plates
- DutchOf the Netherlands
- MetamorphosisTotal physical transformation
gallery · exhibition · museum · retrospective · masterwork · oeuvre · surrealism · visionary
Science of spatial relationships
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
- infinityUnlimited extent or quantity
- hyperbolicExaggerated beyond reason
- topologyStudy of spatial arrangement
crystallography · polyhedra · fractals · recursion · self-similarity · sphere · rotation · reflection
Seemingly absurd truth
- contradictionOpposing claims, incompatible together
- ambiguityOpenness to multiple interpretations
- figure-groundPerceptual separation of object and background
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
mind-bending · trick · deception · bewilderment · disorientation
Distance below surface
- three-dimensionalHaving volume and depth
- viewpointWay of seeing things
- distortionTwisting from original state
- spatialRelating to physical extent
anamorphosis · fish-eye · warped · reflection · self-portrait · convex · inside-out
tiling
Surface-covering arrangement
- mosaicInlaid pictorial arrangement
- interlockingEngaging by overlap
- patternRecurring arrangement or template
repetition · metamorphosis · symmetry · motif · transformation · figure-ground · wallpaper · coverage · lattice · horsemen
lithograph
Stone-based printing method
- woodcutRelief print from timber
- printmakerArtist using pressed plates
- DutchOf the Netherlands
Metamorphosis · gallery · exhibition · museum · retrospective · masterwork · oeuvre · surrealism · visionary
geometry
Science of spatial relationships
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
- infinityUnlimited extent or quantity
- hyperbolicExaggerated beyond reason
topology · crystallography · polyhedra · fractals · recursion · self-similarity · sphere · rotation · reflection
paradox
Seemingly absurd truth
- contradictionOpposing claims, incompatible together
- ambiguityOpenness to multiple interpretations
- figure-groundPerceptual separation of object and background
perception · mind-bending · trick · deception · bewilderment · disorientation
depth
Distance below surface
- three-dimensionalHaving volume and depth
- viewpointWay of seeing things
- distortionTwisting from original state
spatial · anamorphosis · fish-eye · warped · reflection · self-portrait · convex · inside-out
- Dutch ArtistsRembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Hieronymus Bosch, Piet Mondrian, Vincent van Gogh
- Dutch FiguresErasmus, Vermeer, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Anne Frank
- DutchDutch, Holland, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Rotterdam
- NetherlandsAmsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, tulips
- Dutch ArtRembrandt, Dutch painters, Dutch Golden Age, Dutch paintings, Vincent van Gogh
- geometric arttessellations, fractals, symmetry, spirals, geometric patterns
EscherImpressionism
Art movement emphasizing light
Jackson Pollock · Abstract Expressionism · Monet · Claude Monet · Vermeer
EscherNorman Rockwell
Ansel Adams · documentary photography · architectural rendering · John James Audubon · scientific illustration
- M.C. EscherDutch impossible-geometry artist
- M. C. EscherImpossible geometry illustrator
- Escher stairsParadoxical looping stairway