Fantastic World Of M C Escher docu 1980 ! Maurits Cornelis Escher , Dutch: , usually referred to as 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. Escher plays with complicated spirals, sometimes interweaving mirrored spiral curves that twist in opposite directions. Some of the images suggest surreal inspiration, as with two faces rendered like curled apple peels, but the content of the pictures is intellectual and not symbolic. The key is the qualities of two-dimensional representations that motivate us to perceive 3-dimensionality: Compound curves and repeated patterns collapse into infinity, or appear to wrap around spherical objects, or alternate between positive and negative space. Escher knows that the human mind has difficulty processing structures as complicated as these; the clarity of some is so intimidating they suggest manufacture by superhuman mentalities. It makes us think how easily primitive men (which we still are) drop their investigation of the world and instead reach for supernatural explanations. Actually, there is a superhuman order in these images: Mathematics. The Fantastic World of M.C. Escher uses classroom testimony of a few experts (among them Prof. H. S. M. Coxeter of Toronto University and Prof. R. Penrose of Oxford University) to show that the artist was well aware of complex mathematical concepts and used them to inspire his work. Math has a cold beauty that comes with truth, and the unemotional surfaces of some of Eschers artwork reflect that quality while demonstrating the quantifiable (x,y,z) aspects of a curve or a spiral. This reviewer certainly didnt understand everything in the short lectures, but theyre clear enough not to be confused with double-talk. Grtzzz and Love Pierre https://youtube/watch?v=zCbS6D-y0do
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