M. C. Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher (; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were inspired by mathematics. Despite wide popular interest, for most of his life Escher was 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 George Pólya, Roger Penrose, and Donald Coxeter, and the crystallographer Friedrich Haag, and conducted his own research into tessellation.
Early in his career, he drew inspiration from nature, making studies of insects, landscapes, and plants such as lichens, all of which he used as details in his artworks. He traveled in Italy and Spain, sketching buildings, townscapes, architecture and the tilings of the Alhambra and the Mezquita of Cordoba, and became steadily more interested in their mathematical structure.
Escher's art became well known among scientists and mathematicians, and in popular culture, especially after it was featured by Martin Gardner in his April 1966 Mathematical Games column in ''Scientific American''. Apart from being used in a variety of technical papers, his work has appeared on the covers of many books and albums. He was one of the major inspirations for Douglas Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1979 book ''Gödel, Escher, Bach''. Provided by Wikipedia
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Límite circular I ; Límite circular IV ; Nudos ; Otro mundo ; La cinta de movimiento / by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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Autorretrato; Ocho cabezas; Aire y agua; Figuras humanas; Tres esferas / by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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Espejo mágico : Las tres esferas II / by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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Caja de escalera; La relatividad; Tres mundos; Cubo de Cintas / by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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Ciznes; Ligaruras / by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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Repetición periodica de un plano; Belvéderes; Ascendente y descendente; Movimiento perpetuo / by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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Superficie esférica con peces; Espirales esféricos; El recorrido de la vida; Peces y escamas / by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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Nudos / by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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Jinete; Estudio de un reemplazo periodico de un plano / by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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Límite circular II; De más en más pequeño; La profundidad; Escorzo; Charca de agua / by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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Estampas y dibujos / by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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Naturaleza muerta con espejo. by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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San Bavon, Haarlem. by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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Roma de noche. by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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Escaleras. by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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Naturaleza muerta con esfera reflejante. by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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Naturaleza muerta con calle. by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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Marsella. by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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Boceto a color de Amalfi. by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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La magia de M. C. Escher / by Escher, Maurits Cornelis, 1898-1972
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