The Islamic art that Escher encountered in one of his travels to Alhambra in Spain led him to undergo the artistic exploration of tessellation and symmetry. His work in tessellation and symmetry are pefect examples of the use of mathematics to create art. In this way, he found something that profoundly altered the trajectory of his artistic career.Maurits Cornelish Escher (Leeuwarden, Holland 1898) explored and created art inspired by various mathematical ideas. He dived into his cache of inspirations and found new things to work with.
The “less striking” landscape pushed Escher to find inspiration from within. It is most important then that we trust ourselves in this lonely journey. Each of us find our own inspirations, and take our own decisions. It suggests to me that there is no single-line journey to becoming an artist. It is interesting to think how the same situation that shackles one person can set another free. A big stimulus to SneakyArt was starting a practice of drawing from observation, in the substantially “less striking” American Midwestern landscape. My artistic journey began after moving to the USA from Delft (in the Netherlands). I also find his adversity very interesting because of how it mirrors my own life. I love how he finds opportunity in this adverse situation. “I found the outward appearance of landscape and architecture less striking … I felt compelled to withdraw from the more or less direct and true-to-life illustrating of my surroundings.” Escher’s great stimulus/adversity was benign at first glance - the change of scenery when he returned to Belgium and the Netherlands from Italy. But what made these scales fall from his eyes? Transformation needs stimulus. “Not only had the craft become second nature to me, it had also become essential."Įscher found that his expertise in print-making would serve him well in sharing his work with a large number of people. In the introduction text, Escher admits to this. Of course, this is not to say the pursuit is fruitless. I vowed to draw the same way, or at least with the same air of nonchalance. His effortless style with an ink brush drove me crazy. I remember one such frenzy when I discovered the work of Kim Jung Gi. I have sometimes lost weeks and months at a time, in the pursuit of various technical skills. will even make his choice of subject subordinate to this desire to explore some particular facet of technique. There is tremendous satisfaction acquisition of artistic skill. He trained to be a print-maker, and spent an early part of his career devoted to the pursuit of technical mastery.Īnyone who applies himself to the practice of graphic technique may … hold, as his highest ideal, the complete mastery of his craft. With this in mind, let’s look at the things that inspired Mauritz Cornelius Escher. But I hope to be able to answer it by the end of this series. “I consider my work the most beautiful and also the ugliest.” - MC Escher, on the book’s dust jacket. I find this an incredible opportunity to not only understand what made him create, but also the circumstances of his career at the moment of inspiration. My great discovery after browsing through the images was to find that all the words in it were also written by the artist, describing his pieces and their various inspirations. As a result, I cherish collecting them now.
Growing up, these books always felt out of reach, for they would be too expensive. Sometimes they are inspirational, and often useful reference material.
I often buy secondhand books of art to look at the pictures. I recently bought a secondhand book of his work, called “MC Escher: The Graphic Work”.
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