MC Escher

*Read the full post here.

**Read the 2nd post on Reptiles here.

This video featured his famous works and Reptiles appeared somewhere in the middle of the video. That was just an introduction to his works and common artistic styles and the work I will be talking about (or rather Feldman’s criticize about today. Interesting, no? Well, who exactly is MC Escher?

His full name is Maurits Cornelis Escher (which explains the initials MC Escher). According to his official webpage, he is one of the world’s most renowned graphic artists. He can be classified under the movement of Surrealism (in my opinion), because of his famous manipulations with composition, by incorporating exquisite structures which pay homage to mazes and puzzles, playing with optical illusions in his 2D art works. I guess he was truly a master of his art, as there is nobody else as refined in this area as he is. Although his works exhibits the concept of abstraction and fantasies, his works are composed (like Salvador Dali and many other Surrealist artists) with photorealism, which I am a huge fan of. Ha. 

Apart from creating sketches and occasional paintings, he made use of other mediums. There has been a record saying that during his lifetime (1898-1972), he has a whopping amount of 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings and over 2000 drawings and sketches! That is divine, no, really. 

To learn about lithography, do watch this gorgeous video, that highlights the art of lithography here.

Here’s a fascinating fact about the late artist, he was left-handed. I guess left-handers are geniuses? I for one has many friends who are left-handers and they are braniacs and crazy good in their works and all. Famous artists throughout the centuries like Michelangelo and Lenoardo Da Vinci were also left handed. 

Escher is most renowned for his complex works such as Ascending and Descending, Relativity, his Transformation Prints, such as Metamorphosis I, Metamrphosis II and Metamorphosis III, Sky Water I or Reptiles (which I will be featuring in this blog).

Reptiles, Marius Cornelius Escher, 1943 (Lithograph)

The next blog post will be an extensive and comprehensive (I hope) analysis of Reptiles (above) and a comparison between Reptiles and another piece of work called Cycle by Sergey Cherednichenko. I will also be ending the next post with another appropriate video. Keep reading!