Early Works: Art Nouveau and Nature
Significant moments in the life of Escher
Visitors gathering around to admire Escher's early works
A closer look at some of his drawings
Escher's landscape drawings
Lithograph (1931) of Atrani (Coast of Amalfi) - the place he met his wife
Tessellation
Escher made used of repeated geometrical shapes to create tessellation prints.
Regular Division of the Plane with Birds, No. 95 (Watercolour and ink, 1955)
Regular Division of the Plane I (Woodcut, 1957)
Tessellation Puzzle Activity located at the back of the exhibition hall
Metamorphosis
Gradual transformation of tessellation from one shape to another.
A section of Metamorphosis II (Woodcut, 1939 - 1940)
Day and Night (Woodcut, 1938)
Hand with Reflecting Sphere (Lithograph, 1935)
Is he holding the glass sphere with his left hand (foreground) or right hand (reflection)?
Commercial Works
Escher's commissioned artworks include postage stamps, concert programme cover and even a icosahedron tin box.
Exploring the Infinity
"Are you sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?"
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Möbius Strip II (Woodcut, 1963) The ants can never fall off the paper as they crawl along an infinite loop. |
Ascending and Descending (Lithograph, 1960)
People walking in an endless looping stairs, not actually making progress up/down. Perhaps, this is the depressing reality that sometimes life is as such.
Tetrahedral Planetoid (Woodcut, 1954)
Print Gallery. Left: Lithograph (1956). Right: Digital Print (2003)
Escher left it blank in the center of his art piece (left picture).
It took a team of mathematicians to fill in the blank (right picture).
Escher's final piece of artwork - Snakes (Woodcut, 1969)
The art piece starts with small rings in the center, building up to big rings outward, then back to small rings along the circumference. "...earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust..."
Escher Mania
LP record covers
Comics covers