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Eschers

Eschers is the plural form of Escher, a surname of Dutch origin. The name is most closely associated with Maurits Cornelis Escher, commonly known as M. C. Escher, a Dutch graphic artist celebrated for works that fuse art and mathematics, exploring infinity, symmetry, and perspective through tessellations, paradoxical structures, and metamorphosis.

Maurits Cornelis Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, and studied at the Haarlem School of

Influence and legacy of Escher’s work extend into mathematics, design, and cognitive science. His prints are

Architecture
and
Decorative
Arts
before
turning
to
graphic
arts.
He
produced
a
prolific
body
of
woodcuts,
lithographs,
and
drawings
in
which
geometric
arrangements,
repeating
patterns,
and
impossible
constructions
challenge
the
viewer’s
sense
of
space.
Notable
works
include
Relativity
(1953),
Waterfall
(1961),
Metamorphosis
II
(1939–40),
and
Drawing
Hands
(1948).
His
imagery
often
blurs
the
line
between
two-dimensional
design
and
three-dimensional
perception,
using
careful
shading,
perspective,
and
tessellation.
frequently
cited
in
discussions
of
visual
paradoxes,
geometric
transformations,
and
spatial
reasoning,
and
his
name
has
become
shorthand
for
“Escher-like”
compositions—artistic
tests
of
perception
and
infinity.
The
surname
Escher
is
borne
by
other
individuals
as
well,
though
none
have
achieved
the
same
level
of
international
recognition
as
M.
C.
Escher.
In
encyclopedic
contexts,
Escher
may
refer
to
people
with
the
surname
or
to
analyses
and
discussions
of
his
artistic
and
mathematical
ideas.