Maurits Cornelis Escher

Maurits Cornelis Escher, according to me, is an artist who is capable to show you a complicated building or a wonderful landscape look perfectly real, for example, Castrovalva. And he is also able to create an impossible world by using something actual. The reasons his art amazed me is because since I was a child, I loved doing math. The parts I appreciated the most was because it was precise, you can only two possibilities either you are right or wrong, and the geometric shapes. For this assignment I wanted to choose an artist who both pays attention about details and whose art had no resemblance to what I saw before or that people usually see when they are thinking about art, and I assume Maurits Cornelis Escher suits entirely the description.

Graphic art, also called graphics, is the visual arts based on the use of line and tone rather than three dimensional work or the use of color. It is the fine and applied arts of representation, decoration and writing or printing on flat surfaces together with the techniques and crafts associated with them. According to the official site in honor of Maurits Cornelis Escher and to the National Gallery of Art, Escher was a draftsman, book illustrator, tapestry designer, muralist, but his primary work was as a printmaker, and he is also considered one of the world’s famous graphic artist. Born in 1898 in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, and died seventy-four years later in 1972, Escher was the fourth and youngest son of a civil engineer who spent most of his youth in Arnhem. After failing his high school exams, he ultimately was enrolled in the school for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem, but with the encouragement of his teacher Samuel Jessurum de Mesquita, he decided and told his father he would rather study graphic art instead. After school, he

He had to return because of political turmoil forced him and his family to move to Switzerland, then to Belgium, but because of World War II under way and German troops occupying Brussels, Escher returned to Holland where he lived and worked until he dies. The fact he lived in Italy for so long had a great influence on his work considering his early art are Rome and the Italian countryside. He was more focus in depicting the winding roads of the Italian countryside, the dense architecture of small hillside towns, or details of massive buildings in Rome, Escher often created enigmatic spatial effects by combining various and often conflicting vantage points, for instance, looking up and down at the same time. He frequently made such effects more dramatic through his treatment of light, using vivid contrasts of black and white. After he left Ital in 1934, he changed his style from landscape to something he illustrated as “mental imagery”, often based on theoretical premises. The origin of this style was the result of his second visit in 1936 to the fourteenth-century palace of the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. The lavish tile work