In what is being billed as the largest M.C. Escher exhibition ever, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is presenting more than 400 works by the beloved graphic artist, providing a fresh look to an ...

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 ...

With a mathematical precision, M.C. Escher played with perspective, making the impossible seem more than plausible. Water runs uphill. Staircases have no set path up, down or, even upside-down. A pair ...

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 ...

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 ...

A modern-art marvel celebrated for his illusionistic, fantastical drawings and lithographs, M. C. Escher (1898–1972) is regarded today as one of the world’s most iconic graphic artists. Renowned ...

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 ...

Staircases that lead to an infinite loop, divisions of plane into imaginative space, and hands that draw themselves—these are some of the images we associate with M.C. Escher. His inventive and ...

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 ...

A topsy-turvy staircase leading nowhere. Two hands drawing themselves into existence. Interlocking birds that morph into fish, and back again. Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher’s ...

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.