M.C Escher (initial research)

M.C. Escher

As Escher is the first artist I am looking at for this project I will produce one of my artist profiles on him at a later date.

I always knew about M.C Escher as an artist who would draw surreal images, tessellating shapes and impossible architecture. His work really inspired my initial painting (left). I created this painting having an image in my head of buildings swirling into the centre of the square, much like the shape of Eschers tessellating images.


Whilst looking at his work on architecture and perspective, which I believed to be more relevant to my practice, I came across a chapter in the book, written by Micky Piller, on tessellations. This chapter contains imges of Eschers sketches used in teaching (below, right) and I began to form a more solid idea for this etching in my head(Below, left). I thought I could use these simple design but create them using buildings themselves.