Mauritis Cornelis Escher or M.C. Escher for short was born on January 27, 1898 in Leeawarden, in the Netherlands. He died on March 27, 1977. M.C. Escher was a graphic artist who worked on posters, stamps, and other ads. Occasionally he would make a painting with paint but most of the time he used a pencil, a ruler for straight lines, and charcoal.
M.C. Escher worked on kind of a mix between Op Art and Realism. Op Art is also known as Optical Art and that relates to the term optical illusion because many of M.C. Escher’s drawings were optical illusions. Realism refers to the general attempt to depict subjects.
I think that M.C. Escher’s work is inspiring. It tries to challenge the mind of the viewer with the black and white optical illusions and oddities. When I studied the artists through time, I was surprised to see that we never learned about M.C. Escher.
One of Escher’s hobbies was making spheres out of pieces of beach wood. With all of the detail you see in his drawings, the average time for him to make a good detailed picture is about a month. Escher’s nickname through school was Mauk. In his early years, he went to Primary school and Secondary school for 15 years. After that, he attended a school for architecture and then he finally found the school he was looking for. He joined a school that teaches decorative arts and there he became friends with his teacher and gained a great amount of knowledge of drawing.
This is my favorite M.C.E. quote:
“I would sometimes hear painters say that they paint "for themselves": but I think they would soon have painted their fill if they lived on a desert island. The primary purpose of all art forms, whether it’s music, literature, or the visual arts, is to say something to the outside world; in other words, to make a personal thought, a striking idea, an inner emotion perceptible to other people’s senses in such a way that there is no uncertainty about the maker's intentions.”
Thursday, May 27, 2010
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