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The question that is asked quite frequently is the question was Escher a mathmatician or an artist? some people say mathmatician others say artist but personally i believe it wa a little of both. to make those illusions and patterns he had 2 know a thing or two about numbers and calculations and things in that nature. he also have had 2 have artist ingfluence because who else would have such a great imagination to see those in his head.every great artist has a secret that holds signifgance to his or her painting and for escher it wa shis ability to make things pop out at you make them seem as though
they were coming out just simply reaching for you.Escher was one of the few who has mastered a way of art that is of great work.
for example the drawing on the cover shows a hand wrapped around in such a way as if you were to actually try it yourself
would be just impossible to immitate.Escher is an important man to both art and math because if it weasnt for him peoples mind would expand they wouldn see things outside the box
Escher to me is an itelligent person that i believ sometimes when he draws it he cant believe what he is drawing
it just comes so easy to him that his imagination is so big and outrsid ethe box that not even himself can figure out his work.
Escher also is big on color because color really does make one thing different from another.Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher was born on June 17, 1898, in the Dutch province of Friesland. His parents, George Arnold Escher and Sarah Gleichman Escher, had three sons of which Maurits (called Mauk for short) was the youngest. His father, George, was a civil engineer. The Escher family was living in Leeuwarden in 1898, where George served as Chief Engineer for a government bureau. The family lived in a grand house named "Princessehof," which would later become a museum and host exhibitions of M.C. Escher's works.

Young M.C. Escher moved with his family to...