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Post by Shan on Jul 2, 2005 21:34:07 GMT
M. C. Escher is known the world over for his graphic art and is most famous for his so-called impossible structures. Some of his most famous pieces are Relativity, Ascending and Descending, Convex and Concave, Reptiles, etc. Relativity ![](http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b172/ashnara/pictures/illusions/relativity.jpg) Here we have three forces of gravity working perpendicularly to one another. Three earth-planes cut across each other at right angles, and human beings are living on each of them. It is impossible for the inhabitants of different worlds to walk or sit or stand on the same floor, because they have differing conceptions of what is horizontal and what is vertical. Yet they may well share the use of the same staircase. On the top staircase illustrated here, two people are moving side by side and in the same direction, and yet one of them is going downstairs and the other upstairs. Contact between them is out of the question because they live in two different worlds and therefore can have no knowledge of each other's existence. - Quote from Learning Resources I love his work. Shan ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Elliot Kane on Jul 2, 2005 21:35:50 GMT
Oh, I know that one! Superb stuff, even though it makes my eyes water ;D
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Post by Shan on Jul 2, 2005 21:43:02 GMT
M.C.Escher (1898 - 1972 Wscher was born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, the fourth and youngest son of a civil engineer. When he was 5 his family moved to Arnhem where he spent most of his youth. After failing his high school exams, Maurits ultimately was enrolled in the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem. After only one week, he informed his father that he would rather study graphic art instead of architecture, as he had shown his drawings and linoleum cuts to his graphic teacher Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, who encouraged him to continue with graphic arts. Bond of Union![](http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b172/ashnara/pictures/illusions/bond_union.jpg) Two spirals merge and portray, on the left, the head of a woman and, on the right, that of a man. As an endless band, their foreheads intertwined, they form a double unity. The suggestion of space is magnified by spheres which float in front of, within and behind the hollow images. - Quote from Escher Gallery I don't know why, but there is something about this one that I really like. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Shan ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Daisy on Jul 2, 2005 22:10:24 GMT
Wow that is amazing, especially the first piece of art caught my eye. I have to be honest and tell you I had never heard of him, even though he is from my country, but I will definately start looking for his work.
Thanks Shan =)
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Post by Shan on Jul 3, 2005 2:59:26 GMT
Daisy, I am glad you liked it. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Relativiity is one of my favorites also. I plan to post some more of his work and I hope you enjoy it too. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Shan ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Shan on Jul 3, 2005 3:02:12 GMT
During his lifetime, Escher 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. Waterfall![](http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b172/ashnara/pictures/illusions/waterfall.jpg) It is composed of square beams which rest upon each other at right-angles. If we follow the various parts of this construction one by one we are unable to discover any mistake in it. Yet it is an impossible whole because changes suddenly occur in the interpretation of distance between our eye and the object. This is impossible triangle is fitted three times over into the picture. Falling water keeps a millwheel in motion and subsequently flows along a sloping channel between two towers, zigzagging down to the point where the waterfall begins again. The miller simply needs to add a bucketful of water from time to time, in roder to compensate for the loss through evaporation. The two towers are the some height and yet the one on the right is a story lower than the one on the left. - Quoted from Learning Resource Enjoy. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Shan ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Shan on Jul 3, 2005 3:24:42 GMT
Here is another one of Escher's impossible structures. Belvedere![](http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b172/ashnara/pictures/illusions/belvedere.jpg) In the lower left foreground there lies a piece of paper on which the edges of the cube are drawn. Two small circles mark the places where the edges cross each other. Which edge comes at the front and which at the back? In a three-dimensional world simultaneous front and back is an impossibility and so cannot be illustrated. Yet it is quite possible to draw an object which displays a different reality when looked at from above and from below. The lad sitting on the bench has got just such a cube-like absurdity in his hands. He gazes thought fully at this incomprehensible object and seems oblivious to the fact that the belvedere behind him was built in the same impossible style. On the floor of the lower platform, that is to say indoors, stands a ladder which two people are busy climbing. But a soon as they arrive a floor higher they are back in the open air and have to re-enter the building. Is it any wonder that nobody in this company can be bothered about the fate of the prisoner in the dungeon who sticks his head through the bars and bemoans his fate? - Quote from Learning Resources Enjoy. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Shan ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Daisy on Jul 3, 2005 8:35:57 GMT
Thank you Shan ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) It's just amazing, I can't stop looking!
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Post by Shan on Jul 3, 2005 21:32:36 GMT
This piece is just as intriguing to me as his buildings are. Drawing Hands![](http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b172/ashnara/pictures/illusions/drawing_hands.jpg) A piece of paper is fixed to a base with drawing pins. A right hand is busy sketching a shirt-cuff upon the drawing paper. At this point its work is incomplete, but a little further to the right it has already drawn a left hand emerging from a sleeve in such detail that this hand has come right up out of the flat surface, and in its turn it is sketching the cuff from which the right hand is emerging, as though it were living member. Enjoy. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Shan ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Shan on Jul 3, 2005 21:35:48 GMT
Daisy, if you happen to come across one of Escher's pieces on the net that you like, feel free to post it if you want. Anybody who has a favorite Escher picture is welcome to post it here. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Shan ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Shan on Jul 4, 2005 22:04:50 GMT
Here is another of the building drawings Escher did. This one is cool too. Ascending and Descending![](http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b172/ashnara/pictures/illusions/ascending_descending.jpg) A rectangular inner courtyard is bounded by a building that is roofed in by a never ending stairway. The inhabitants of these living-quarters would appear to be monks, adherents of some unknown sect. Perhaps it is their ritual duty to climb those stairs for a few hours each day. It would seem that when they get tired they are allowed to turn about and go downstairs instead of up. Yet both directions, though not without meaning, are totally useless. Two recalcitrant individuals refuse,for the time being, to take any part in this exercise. They have no use for it at all, but no doubt sooner or later they will be brought to see the error of their nonconformity. - Quoted from World of Escher Shan ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Shan on Jul 12, 2005 21:46:52 GMT
An interesting illusion. Encounter![](http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b172/ashnara/pictures/illusions/LW331.jpg) Out from the gray surface of a back wall there develops a complicated pattern of white and black figures of little men. And since men who desire to live need at least a floor to walk on, a floor has been designed for them, with a circular gap in the middle so that as much as possible can still be seen of the back wall. In this way they are forced, not only to walk in a ring, but also to meet each other in the foreground: a white optimist and a black pessimist shaking hands with one another. - Quote from World of Escher Enjoy. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Shan ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Shan on Jul 12, 2005 21:58:01 GMT
Reptiles ![](http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b172/ashnara/pictures/illusions/LW327.jpg) The life cycle of a little alligator. Amid all kinds of objects, a drawing book lies open, and the drawing on view is a mosaic of reptilian figures in three contrasting shades. Evidently one of them has tired of laying flat and rigid amongst his fellows, so he puts one plastic-looking leg over the edge of the book, wrenches himself free and launches out into real life. He climbs up the back of a book on zoology and works his way up the slippery slope of a set square to the highest point of his existence. Then after a quick snort, tired but fulfilled, he goes downhill again, via an ashtray, to the level surface, to that flat drawing paper, and meekly rejoins his erst while friends, taking up once more his function as an element of surface division. N.B. The little book of Job has nothing to do with the Bible, but contains Belgian cigarette papers. - Quote from World of Escher - Quote from World of Escher Interesting. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Shan ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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