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Math in Art.
Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) is one of the world's most famous graphic artists. His art is enjoyed by millions of people all over the world, and can be seen on the many web sites on the internet. .
He is most famous for his so-called impossible structures, such as Ascending and Descending, Relativity, his Transformation Prints, such as Metamorphosis I, Metamorphosis II and Metamorphosis III, Day and Night and Reptiles. .
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But he also made some wonderful, more realistic work during the time he lived and traveled in Italy. Castrovalva, for example, where Escher establishes his fascination for high and low, close by and far away. The lithograph Atrani, a small town on the Amalfi Coast was made in 1931, but comes back for example, in his piece Metamorphosis I and II. .
Trying to assign "time periods" for Escher's works has been difficult for most scholars due to the fact that in any given period a number of themes occupied Escher's mind simultaneously. Moreover, each period had its time of predevelopment, and so did not announce its arrival very clearly. Also, a particular theme might very well turn up again even when the time of full attention to that theme has passed. However after careful analysis, scholars have been able to break Escher's work down into four workable time periods: 1922-1937 = the Landscape Period, 1937-1945 = Metamorphosis Period, 1946-1956 = Perspective Prints Period and 1956-1970 = Infinity Period. .
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M.C. Escher, during his lifetime, made 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings and over 2000 drawings and sketches. Like some of his famous predecessors, - Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Durer and Holbein-, M.C. Escher was left-handed. Apart from being a graphic artist, M.
