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Maurits Cornelis Escher was born June 17, 1898 in the town of Leeuwarden, Holland to Mr. ... Escher who was an engineer. After moving throughout Holand through his young life, Escher attended the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem. ... In 1922, Escher moved to Italy where he held his first one-man exhibition. Throughout the 1920’s, Escher spent most of his time living in Italy with his new wife, Jetta. After creating mostly landscapes on lithograph, in 1936 Escher moved into graphic art, creating his first Metamorphosis in 1937. ... Although both mathematicians and scientists respected Escher, he had no formal education in either math or science. ...
In 1953, Escher created one of his most recognizable pieces of art. ... Like most of his art pieces, Escher made Relativity a black and white piece. ...
In Relativity, Escher has three forces of gravity working perpendicularly to one another. ...
In this picture Escher exploits a powerful tool of the fine arts, and a concept that was finally mastered in the Renaissance by means of geometry: that of a perspective that can be calculated and therefore constructed in a drawing. ... By establishing three vanishing points, which are moreover placed outside the actual picture, Escher creates as it were three independent though related worlds.
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