Night And Day - Escher - Posters
100 Rs
M.C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist known for his iconic optical illusions. Escher's lithographs, woodcuts, engravings, and drawings expressed a high level of technical expertise and meticulous attention to detail. View Artist Collection
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About Night And Day Escher
Escher’s first unfeasible reality was “Still Life and Street” (1937), a landscape with an illusory dual perspective. There followed dexterously executed scenes where two-and three-dimensional planes blend seamlessly (“Reptiles”), staircases without beginning or end, locking those going up and down into a ceaseless loop (“Ascending and Descending”), compositions using geometric patterns (“Circle Limit”) or mathematical motifs to create physics-defying structures (“Waterfall”). Escher’s mathematical wonderland is visually and conceptually dizzying and, from the 1960s on, became iconic: Escher turned down Mick Jagger’s invitation to design a Rolling Stones album cover, and his work features in films from Labyrinth to Inception. But although he shared an aesthetic with Dalí and Magritte, Escher worked alone, aloof from any art movement, and in black and white, for half a century until his death in 1972. His major influence was Arabic decorative patterning: visiting the Alhambra in 1922, he was enthralled by the tiled walls of tessellated mosaics. He assimilated their interlocking geometrical symmetries into large, complex woodcuts such as “Metamorphosis II”, where tessellations allow images to morph into one another: fish to birds, hives to bees, vast panoramas to chess pieces. It is not by chance that the title evokes Kafka: Escher — who also liked to draw insects — is a visual poet who found a crazy yet accessible language for mid-century angst and introspection. About the Posters
Night And Day - Escher by M. C. Escher. Our posters are produced on acid-free 220 GSM papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a sufficent white border around the image to allow for future framing, if desired. Product will be shipped in 2-3 days
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