Many years ago, my beloved wife and I were talking about artists we very much liked such as Salvidor Dali. She introduced me to one I had never heard of, M.C. Escher. When I saw his work, I also fell in love with what I saw.
Today, after we came home from buying dish soap that I forgot to buy on the last shopping trip, I came across this excellent video about him told in his own words. There were facets of his work and life that Joan and I were ignorant about so it was very interesting and informative for us. His artistry is fascinating so if you have any interest in art, it would be worth your time to watch it. We didn't know that his later years were very much influenced by the Moorish geometric designs in the Alhambra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDCHeYCn368
Maurits Cornelis Escher was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. Despite wide popular interest, Escher was for most of his life neglected in the art world, even in his native Netherlands. He was 70 before a retrospective exhibition was held. In the late twentieth century, he became more widely appreciated, and in the twenty-first century, he has been celebrated in exhibitions around the world.
His work features mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated, and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, and tessellations. Although Escher believed he had no mathematical ability, he interacted with the mathematicians and conducted his own research into tessellation.
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