M. C. Escher Analysis

When thinking about M.C. Escher’s work, one would think of geometrical birds flying across the print with a landscape shown underneath, cubes and spheres overlapping one another, and weird surreal prints of inverted architecture. That is because he is most famous for his mathematical tessellations, which are tiling shapes overlapping one another creating a pattern that could be endless. Instead of just using any old shape, he used animals and other objects that made it more difficult for him to create these patterns but he succeeded in the end. During M.C. Escher’s lifetime, he has created 448 lithographs, woodcuts and engravings and over 2000 drawings and sketches. He is also very famous for his realistic work he created in Italy later in …show more content…
No matter how you turn or twist yourself, you can’t get out of that central point. You are immovably the focus of your world.” The only thing that changes is the background when the artist moves. No matter what a person does or where they are, they are always at the center of their own universe. No matter what happens that person will always be there for him or herself in the end. Escher has always known this about people but did not realize it till he glanced inside the globe and saw himself always at the center whenever he moved the sphere …show more content…
Escher saw the world differently when he viewed the sphere. Not many other artists saw the same thing and that is what is so different about this particular artist. When he was holding the sphere, he was viewing this as if he was holding himself and the studio in his hand. He was fascinated by this viewing and drew other images that were similar to Hand with Reflecting Sphere like Self Portrait in Sphere and Three Sphere 2. This way of creating images was odd in the 1930s but many artists created similar self-portraits to Hand with the Reflecting