Escher

Escher is one of my favourite artists. He has been made famous through his unique and incredibly complex style of prints and artwork. He was a dutch artist who used ideas based on architecture and infinitely progressing imagery to create is mathematical works.


One of the things I love most about his work is how he makes the impossible, possible, it's almost like looking at a magic trick when you see his work, and each time I'm just as amazed. One of the other area's I found inspirational was how he used various forms of rotational and translational symmetry to make images transform and morph across the print.


The way he would create trickery and impossible imagery is one of the things I like so much about his work, he plays with perspective to the extent of confusion for the viewer. I try to make sense of his imagery and find where the impossibility effects it but he so carefully disguises it.
This play on symmetry and the comprehensibility of reality is one of the most fascinating things about his work, some artists try to amaze with deeper meaning and the emotional impact of there work, but for Escher the work speaks for itself. It needs no real explanation to appreciate how amazing and brilliant it is, and that's why I find it so inspirational.