Escher,+Maurits

=**BIOGRAPHY**:= Maurtis Escher was born Maurtis Cornelis Escher in June 17,1898, in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. Escher was the youngest son of George Arnold Escher and Sara Gleichman. At the age of seven Escher was placed in a special school because of his illness, but while at the school he failed the second grade. In 1903 Escher and his family moved to Arnhem wherehe started playing the piano until he was thirteen. Escher's family wanted him to follow in the footsteps of his father and become an Architecture but he then became a graphic designer Escher's work was not noticed by the public until the 1950s.His work was finaly noticed in 1956 by the Time Magazine, this gave him a world wide reputation.Escher was known for his exploration of the complex relationship of shapes and figures to space. In 1919 Escher studied at the school for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Harlem. He experimented with the repetition of joining using black and white to create dimensions. Escher failed at the school of Architecture and then began studying Decorative art. In 1922 Escher traveled to Spain to view the patterns used in Alhambra. On his tour of Spain and Italy, he met a woman from Italy named Jetta Umiker whom he married in 1924. The couple lived in r]Rome until 1935 and had a son named Girgio Arnold Escher. After their son was born they moved to Switzerland where they lived for two years. In 1937 the family moved to Belgium, but World War ll forced them to mave to Baarn, Netherlands. On April 30,1955, Escher was awarded a knighthood of the Order of Orange-Nassau. Escher died in his house on March 27, 1972, at 73 years of age. Maurtis Escher

=SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION:=

Using his prints Escher discovered mirror images,cones,spheres,cubes and connecting rings and also continuous spirals. Escher used these designs to create illusionary images such as continuous staircases. Escher made arrangements of closed shapes which covered a surface, never leaped oneanother and never left gaps, these arrangements were called "tesselations". Escher was fascinated with "tesselations" and took pride in what he called "metamorphoses." Metamorphoses is when shapes change and interact with each other, the shapes would sometimes break off thier planes. In his lifetime Escher created a number of images using several different medias. Escher was extremely skilled at woodcutting, lithographs and wood engraving. One of Eschers creations included the __Mirror__. The mirror was an illusionary drawing made to look as if you were seeing a reflection in an object,it was a mixture of reality and reflection. Another one of Escher's image was infinity. The infinity image is created by forming the illusion that there is a continuous repeating of an image. Since 1944 Escher's work have been viewed as surrealist because of its oliptical illusions. Some of his stunning works were Day and Night, House of Stairs and Relitivity, most of Escher's work consisted of infinite possibilities based on different illusions. He created challenging illusions, alot of mathematicians are facinated by his techniques. He created his works using flat patterns vs. three dimensionality and the possibility of depicting the infinite. Infinite image Mirror image