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An imperfect tool for drawing and exploring symmetrical patterns and designs. It can export pictures, pattern tiles for fabric and wallpaper design, and SVG for further editing. You can also publish your drawings and share them on Facebook and Twitter, or even have them printed onto custom wrapping paper or fabrics via Zazzle .
Selected Works by M.C. Escher. This gallery contains much of the work produced by M.C. Escher during his lifetime. Browse one of our collections or search by keyword.
In the Alhambra, Escher encountered walls, ceilings and rooms filled with colourful abstract decorations, but also tessellations consisting only of lines. Five months previously, he had made Eight Heads. He immediately began to copy the patterns that most fascinated him.
View all 470 artworks. M.C. Escher lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of Dutch Surrealism and Op Art. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
See a selection of M.C. Escher’s works at the National Gallery of Art. We have more than 400 works by Escher: drawings, illustrated books, technical materials, and impressions of 330 of the artist's 450 prints.
He is most famous for his so-called impossible constructions, such as Ascending and Descending, Relativity as well as his Transformation Prints, such as Metamorphosis I, II and III, Sky & Water I or Reptiles. Read More. Latest media news about M.C. Escher as well as recently introduced products.
To this rather stark abstract field of mathematics, Escher added a human and a fantastical dimension that incorporated animals such as lizards, dragon-like creatures and birds into his interlocking designs, replacing the abstract patterns of Moorish tiles with recognizable figures.
