Few days back I stumbled upon some painting, first it was very different and then wow!...what a master piece they are. He had portrayed the relativity in a two dimensional sketch. Then I goggled who this maestro is and found him to be MC Escher.
Maurits Cornelis Escher referred as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist, known for his mathematical woodcuts, lithographs and mezzo tints. These features of his are impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture and tessellations.
Escher's first print of an impossible reality was Still Life and Street. His artistic expression was created from images in his mind. Some of his work also include Drawing Hands, a work in which two hands are shown, each drawing the other; Ascending and Descending, in which lines of people ascend and descend stairs in an infinite loop, on a construction which is impossible to build and possible only to draw using quirks of perception and perspective.
He worked primarily in lithographs and woodcuts, though the few mezzo tints he made are considered to be masterpieces of the technique. In his graphic art, he portrayed mathematical relationships among shapes, figures and space. Integrated into his prints were mirror images of cones, spheres, cubes, rings and spirals.
Escher did not have a mathematical training. His understanding of mathematics was largely visual and intuitive. Escher's work has a strong mathematical component, which he drew are built around impossible objects such as the Necker cube and Penrose triangle. Many of Escher's works employed tessellations. Escher's artwork is especially well-liked by mathematicians and scientists, who enjoy his use of polyhedra and geometric distortions.
Escher created periodic tessellations with 43 colored drawings of different types of symmetry. From this point on he developed a mathematical approach to expressions of symmetry in his art works. In 1937, he created woodcuts using the concept of the 17 plane symmetry groups.
Escher also studied the mathematical concepts of topology. He learned additional concepts in mathematics from British mathematician Roger Penrose. And in due respect to him he name the Penrose Triangle. From this knowledge he created Waterfall and Up and Down.
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