M.C.
Escher
M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist. He is
known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs
and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations
of infinity, architecture and tessellations.
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Ascending and Descending is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist
M. C. Escher which was first printed in March 1960.
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Cycle
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House of Stairs
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Convex and Concave
It depicts an ornate architectural structure with many stairs,
pillars and other shapes. The relative aspects of the objects
in the image are distorted in such a way that many of the structure's
features can be seen as both convex shapes and concave impressions.
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Mosaic II
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Drawing Hands
It shows a sheet of paper out of which rise, from the wrists
which remain flat on the page, two hands, facing opposite and
apparently in the act of drawing one another into existence,
a paradox.
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Reptiles
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Waterfall
It shows an apparent
paradox where water from the base of a waterfall appears to
run downhill before reaching the top of the waterfall.
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Relativity
It depicts a paradoxical world in which the
normal laws of gravity do not apply.
The structure has three stairways, and each stairway can be used
by people who belong to two different gravity sources. This creates
interesting phenomena, such as in the top stairway, where two
inhabitants use the same stairway in the same direction and on
the same side, but each using a different face of each step;
thus, one descends the stairway as the other climbs it, even
while moving in the same direction nearly side-by-side. In the
other stairways, inhabitants are depicted as climbing the stairways
upside-down, but based on their own gravity source, they are
climbing normally.
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