Who Is Mc Escher?

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Maurits Cornelis Escher (Mc Escher), born-June 17, 1898 and died- March 27, 1972. The period of art he did was extraordinarily unique, and he did not have a certain time period he painted or drew, but he designed his own art period, he was a modernist . Mc Escher is one of the most famous artist of our time period, he is known for many of the painting you probably seen in a art museum or online. Some of Mc Escher’s paintings include his so-called “impossible constructions” Ascending and Descending and Relativity.
Escher also contributed to math in a way his art was graphed and designed even though he had no education past secondary schooling. Mathematics saw and loved his techniques the way they were graphed …show more content…

None of these paintings were of a certain time period , He was a modernist inspired by math. One technique of his is the one called “ watercolor” now watercolor can be easy or difficult just depends on what your strong or weak in. Escher’s watercolor art was a series of 137 paintings. These paintings would inspire woodcut artist and lithographs. Mc escher contributed very much to his art he had been perfecting his art all his life, since he was a child to after he married and became a father. Around the time he started painting and drawing was a crazy part of history World War 2 was around then but Escher was in italy about that time.
Mc Escher's woodcut art was a series of 448 projects, Escher did not create his first woodcut till 1919. Back then wood was expensive so when escher would do his woodcut art he would use very small pieces of wood.
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His art is unique but i think it was repeated one to many times. I also think Escher should of done more personal paintings and drawings. As a modernist Escher created a series of illusions in his art, every different time you admire his art you can find something new or you can see it from a different way. And the detail he puts is extraordinary and very well placed. Honestly i hope one day my art will be as amazing as Escher’s. Art was extremely unique but very inspiring his story tells me that if you just push an not give up you can become great as your own artist because no one is perfect at art it's just a talent you have. My basic opinion is Mc Escher is a very unique an brilliant artist. Doing this report an looking at Escher's art has shown me art isn't something you do for fun but it's something you do to change a life, to inspire some other future artist, to make a life out of. Escher's art isn't just amazing or brilliant but it's beautiful an inspiring and it shows so much an some tells a story not much but some. You can even create a story out of his art because it's so mesmerising. My opinion may be random but that's because Escher is a random artist to me you can't fully explain what you think of his art or of

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