Tag: perspectives

Trip Hoppin’ w/Escher

The Humble Fabulist1 Comment

A master manipulator of architecture and perspective, creator of geometric paradoxes, aka M.C. Escher.

Extase, 1922
Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (M.C. Escher’s mentor)
Woodcut

Castle in the Air, 1928
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Woodcut

Tower of Babel, 1928
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Woodcut

Emblemata, 1932
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Woodcut

Dream (Mantis Religiosa), 1935
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Woodcut

Tropea, Calabria, 1931
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Lithograph

Lion of the Fountain in the Piazza at Ravello, 1932
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Wood engraving

”The crucial turning point in Escher’s artistic development was his second trip to Southern Spain in 1936. There, he visited famous Moorish architectural landmarks, such as the Alhambra Palace in Granada and the Mezquita in Cordoba. These visits inspired him to methodically study the patterns that 14th-century artisans used to decorate the walls and the arches of the Moorish monuments. He then developed a passion for tessellation: geometric decoration in which triangles, stars or squares are repeated like tiles to cover a plane without leaving any gaps. He meticulously produced 137 watercolours showing different motifs of tessellation in an exercise book. These motifs represented 17 different ways of filling a flat surface with regular patterns and included a study of various colouring possibilities.”

Hand with Reflecting Sphere (self-portrait) in Spherical Mirror, 1935
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Lithograph

Circle Limit IV (Heaven and Hell), 1960
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Woodcut, printed from two blocks

Circle Limit III, 1959
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Woodcut, printed from five blocks

Depth, 1955
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Wood engraving and woodcut, printed from three blocks

Drawing Hands, 1948
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Lithograph

Ascending and Descending, 1960
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Lithograph

From ”Escher: The Exhibition and Experience” – a travelling exhibition that ran in Industry City from June 2018 February 2019.

Brooklyn, N.Y.

August 4th, 2018

On the bright side

The Humble Fabulist3 Comments

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Walking the High Line can be a real challenge with endless rows of tourists obstructing annoyed New Yorkers obstructing desperate joggers realising only too late that their choice of running track couldn’t have been worse (actually it could but I’ll come back on that later).

But step aside, look left or right away from this nuisance and a broader – brighter – perspective will lay ahead.

Shine

The High Line, Chelsea, Aug 28th 2016