The late Dutch artist M.C. Escher is perhaps best known for his tessellations that fool the eye, like “Sky and Water I,” where birds in the air trade off negative space with fish underwater. But there ...

On the printed page of an art book or magazine, Escher’s work acquires a hard, mechanical coldness that exaggerates certain tendencies in his work, principally his overpowering search for visual order ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Maurits Cornelis Escher, magician and geek, has had his impossible, twisty-turny worlds reincarnated on “The Simpsons” and by LEGO masterminds. His tessellating patterns of morphing ...

Maurits Cornelis Escher saw the world differently. The Dutch artist created a few dozen images that, because of his peculiar perspective, have endured. But many of those images — two hands drawing ...

AKRON, Ohio -- We're all familiar with the mind-blowing winding staircases, goggle-eyed fish and interlocking patterns and puzzles of Dutch artist M.C. Escher. But there's so much more to the artist - ...

The illusion is based on a geometrical puzzle known as the Penrose tribar, from the name of the mathematician whose researches were inspired by Escher’s work. The tribar is a triangle in which each of ...

In the 1960s, the mathematically inspired images of Dutch artist M.C. Escher became a feature of popular culture. I remember album covers, T-shirts, posters and jigsaw puzzles emblazoned with the ...

For most of his adult life, Mick Jagger has probably only rarely heard the word “no” in response to any of his requests. But he heard it at least twice from Maurits Cornelis Escher, the graphic artist ...

When you see fish on display at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass., they're usually happily swimming in the downstairs aquarium, or skeletons in one of the museum's natural history exhibits.

To complement the M.C. Escher retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), TASCHEN is allowing you to construct the artist’s riddles in the palm of your hands. M.C. Escher. Kaleidocycles ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — M.C. Escher once said he had more in common with mathematicians than with other artists, and it\'s not hard to see why.In the abstract logic of his world, birds could ...

In Robin Lutz’s intriguing (yet in the end incomplete) documentary, “M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity,” the iconic Dutch graphic artist (1898-1972), emerges as a complex and entertaining amalgam. He ...