I'd like to meet:
I would enjoy meeting with Salvador Dali, Alphonse Mucha, Vincent Van Gough, Claude Monet, Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt. And I always enjoy talking to C.Cunningham.
Maurits Cornelis Escher was born June17, 1898. Escher's mind-bending prints and drawings playfully explore perspective, mirror images and physical space. Two of his best-known prints, "Relativity" (1953) and "Ascending and Descending" (1960), feature staircases which seem to defy gravity and run in impossible directions. His most popular work may be "Hand With Reflecting Sphere" (1935), an image of himself as seen in a globe held in his outstretched hand. Escher also is known for his tessellations -- mosaics of repetitive designs in which positive and negative images interconnect and sometimes blend into one another. Though Escher was not trained in math, his work has been embraced by mathematicians who see his drawings as artistic depictions of geometric principles.His work also displays a kind of hyper-realism, where all parts of the picture are in tight focus, from close up to far away.Perhaps one of Escher’s most beloved works is this self-portrait from 1935. Entitled, Hand with Reflecting Sphere, this lithograph contains a lot of information about Escher. A hyper-rendered hand holds a mirror-like ball that reflects the artist holding the ball, Escher. We also get a glimpse into Escher’s personal space. The ball reflects a room filled with books, furniture, and accessories that all swirl into the circular and spherical world of the master of illusion. There is nothing supernatural about this drawing and yet the photorealism of the execution of this artwork gives it a kind of hyper-real believability.Escher developed a unique series of drawings after visiting Alhambra, the 14th-century fortress and palace in Granada, Spain. Taking a virtual tour of this architectural gem is a huge insight into the famous drawings and prints that depict architectural believable but impossible spaces. There are archways that seem to lead up, yet lead back to where they started. There are beautiful reflecting pools that create the natural illusion of a mirror.It was the inspiration of Alhambra that started a series of artworks that Escher called the Regular Division of the Plane. In these masterful works, Escher creates memorable and stunning works of optical illusion. In this work entitled, Waterfall, try to follow the path of the water in the architecture of the building. The water falls down and then follows a man-made channel up, only to fall again, in a never-ending cycle of visual impossibility.