M. C. Escher

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Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) - Plane Filling I

Mezzotint. From an edition of 50, printed in 1951.

5.75 x 7.6 inches, 14.6 19.2 cm. Estimate: €15,000-20,000.

Sold Zeeuws Veilinghuis, Middelburg, Netherlands, 6 June 2023 for €28,000 + B.P.

$40 NFS

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With that spinning Spiral of the multitude of Eyes and Mouths and murmuring sounds what glean close to nameless gibbering, Roland the Poet, the Scholar, the ever-winding strain of innocent Curiosity and the Soothe, picks a piece of those not-books from one of their not-shelves, and flicks the unpages to find the Words in a heinous scrawl so similar to the Common Tongue; yet, beautifully dissimilar, and bound enough to hath Roland impossibly beaming.

"Art thou so sure?" inquires he, as he flips pages and runs the tips of his fingers to catch that shadow of the fading ink; to think of polite circumstances, of a hunched-o'er Form what hast written down these very Words. "The limitless Beings beyond our capacity for Mortal and neigh comprehensible Thought art above our own heads, and buried amidst the black ground, and perchance Sheogorath hast something of a cackling Cue to mix this sect of Pen and Quill." And, finding his fill for Understanding, Roland places this book back upon its sacred shelf, and looks again for another.

"Perchance a whittl'ng of Dyus at the behest of low-voiced Jyggalag, in interwoven snatchings from the backrooms of Herma-Mora. Wouldst ever they conglomerate?" asks he, sudden and wondering in this stretch of a New Thought. "Hast they, I inquire?"

Another World II by M.C.Escher {gif by beauty-funny-trippy}

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Today's alter is "Concentric Rinds" (1953) by M.C.Escher on Rings of Brighthearth, the final part of my Escher commission. Together, the three cards I've painted on form an infinite mana combo.

Commission, not for sale.

'Poza'. M.C.Escher, 1952

M.C.Escher - Three Worlds, (1955). [790 x 1178]. via ArtPorn

Tessellations!!

A tessellation is the covering of a surface using shapes with no overlap and no gasps.

Its usually seen in our daily life when we talk about planes (planar tiling) such as sidewalks or mosaics:

However in maths this situation can be generalizated to higher dimensions and different geometries (even to non-euclidean geometries!! :00 ).

It was first created by the sumerians as wall decoration and as beautiful patterns for pots, and it has evolved in maths and arts at the same time.

Its so related to arts that the most famous tessellations nowdays were made by an artist!!! (M.C.Escher)

Hope u like them!

A true honour. Creatures canvas art under curation with the M.C.Escher exhibition 🐜🕷🦎 FPS now have multiple artworks touring around Europe alongside arguably the greatest graphic artist who has ever lived. DM us about signed art. Discover more via link below.

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Relativity by M.C.Escher

Relativity is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in December 1953. The first version of this work was a woodcut made earlier that same year. It depicts a world in which the normal laws of gravity do not apply. 

In one of Escher's most beloved, most copied, and most parodied images, a series of staircases crisscross in a labyrinth-like interior. At first, the staircases seem to occupy a believable illusionistic space, but upon closer inspection viewers realize that they meet each other at impossible angles. In fact, the shape defined by the three main staircases is a famous 'impossible shape' called a Penrose triangle. What makes this print so mesmerizing is how Escher takes that geometric curiosity as a starting point to create not only one impossible shape but a completely impossible world with multiple simultaneous orientations of gravity.

I put this artist in as the project is about Equilibrium, circle , square and triangle. This artist uses a Penrose triangle:

The Penrose triangle, also known as the impossible triangle, an optical illusion consisting of an object which can be depicted in a perspective drawing, but cannot exist as a solid object. Also because the laws of gravity do not apply in this print which inspires my FMP.

The work of Dutch artist, M.C.Escher recalls some of the descriptions of otherworldly architecture in the stories of H.P.Lovecraft. Particularly in, THE CALL OF CTHULHU, the idea of a cosmic city with impossible angles brings Escher to mind. Both mens' works saw a considerable upswing of interest during the 'Psychedelic' era of the late 60s and early 1970s. Escher passed in 1972. (Exhibit 8)

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