M.C. Escher

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M.C. Escher

Maurits Cornelis Escher
(17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972)

マウリッツ・コルネリス・エッシャー

Escher's first print of an impossible reality was Still Life and Street, 1937. His artistic expression was created from images in his mind, rather than directly from observations and travels to other countries. Well known examples of his work also include Drawing Hands, a work in which two hands are shown, each drawing the other; Sky and Water, in which light plays on shadow to morph the water background behind fish figures into bird figures on a sky background; and Ascending and Descending, in which lines of people ascend and descend stairs in an infinite loop, on a construction which is impossible to build and possible to draw only by taking advantage of quirks of perception and perspective.

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If he never met Daruma, that is just too bad.
But I am sure the two would have chuckeled together.

M.C. Escher
Great Artist of Illusion

M.C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist, most recognized for spatial illusions, impossible buildings, repeating geometric patterns (tessellations), and his incredible techniques in woodcutting and lithography. M.C. Escher was born June 1898 and died March 1972.

His work continues to fascinate both young and old across a broad spectrum of interests. M.C. Escher was a man studied and greatly appreciated by respected mathematicians, scientists and crystallographers yet he had no formal training in math or science.

He was a humble man who considered himself neither an artist or mathematician. Intricate repeating patterns, mathematically complex structures, spatial perspectives all require a "second look". In Escher's work what you see the first time is most certainly not all there is to see.

. Escher : Reference

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H A I K U


The World in a Dewdrop





autum dew -
before daybreak
miracles unfold

Gabi Greve


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. . . gravity -
holding on to
what you have

Gabi Greve

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above the desk
two hands
haiku-ing each other

Brenda


. MANDALA and HAIKU .


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Puddle, three block woodcut, 1954
Escher describes this work as follows:


The cloudless evening sky is reflected in a puddle which a recent shower has left in a woodland path. The tracks of two motor cars, two bicycles and two pedestrians are impressed in the foggy ground.

He neglects to mention the moon, which gives this image such a poetic, oriental feeling, like a visual Haiku. Such works must be ranked among the highest achievements of this genre, comparable to the pastorals of Samuel Palmer.

source : www.escapeintolife.com. Essay by Tony Thomas


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