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Escher's art - presenting structurally unthinkable as if it were a law of nature. M.C. Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. He received his first drawing lessons in high school from F.W. van der Haagen who also taught him the block pressure that stimulated his innate graphic talents. From 1912 to 1922 he studied at the School of Architecture and Decoration in Haarlem, where he was taught graphic techniques by S. Jessurun de Mesquita, which greatly influenced Escher's further artistic development. Between 1922 and 1934, Escher lived and worked in Italy. Escher then spent two years in Switzerland and five years in Brussels before he finally moved to Baarn in the Netherlands where he died in 1972. M.C. Escher is not a surrealist who draws us into his dream world, but an architect of perfectly impossible worlds who present the structurally unthinkable as if it were a law of nature. The dimensional and perspective illusions that result from this confront us with the limitations of our sensory perception.
Number of pages: 96
Author: M.C. Escher
Edition: 1
ISBN: 978-3-8365-4064-3
Nur: Unknown
Version: Paperback
Format: 243x300 mm