Escher is most famous for his "impossible constructions", intricate structures that are physically impossible to make. But he also made many works of art with the use of tessellations, planes filled with repetitive, geometric shapes that don't overlap or leave spaces. Another major area of Escher's art was mathematical drawings. These were precisely and accurately drawn, and featured complex three-dimensional shapes. Finally, his tessellation-like transformation prints blended and changed two unlike things, such as birds and fish, until they slowly turned into one another. Escher was a very prolific artist, producing 448 woodcuts and lithographs and over 2000 drawings during his lifetime.
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M.C. Escher M. C. Escher is considered to be one of the most famous graphic artists of all time. He was born in the Netherlands in 1898, and his full name was Maurits Cornelis Escher. He wasn't a very successful student, but he had a great talent for drawing, so he was enrolled in the School for Architectural and Decorative Arts, located in Haarlem. He visited Italy several times, in 1921 and 1923, and eventually moved there with his wife, Jetta. They had two sons, and eventually moved to Switzerland in 1935. They didn't stay for long, as they moved to Belgium just two years after. Their last move was in 1941, to Holland, where Escher would remain for the rest of his life. He died in 1972, leaving behind a rich legacy of imagination.
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