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Escher, M(auritis) C(ornelius)
Escher (èsh´er, ès´KHer),
M(auritis) C(ornelius)
1898-1972
Dutch artist whose lithographs and
woodcuts depict imaginary
metamorphoses, geometric distortions, and architectural impossibilities.
"Isn't it fascinating to realize, that no image, no form, not even a shade of color, exists on its own. Instead everything visible depends on relationships and contrasts. Even black and white only manifest themselves together and by means of each other."
In his mesmerising
prints - usually in black and white - Escher used paired opposites in pursuit
of paradox and surprise.
"We live, in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in
a formless chaos
,
as it sometimes seems - but we adore chaos because we love to produce order."
Many of his intricate, beautifully ordered designs contain
two opposed but simultaneous true realities: with an unexpected shift in the
mind's eye, fish become sky and birds become water;
up becomes down, and an finite square of paper displays an endless repetition.
The artist called it "a pleasure knowingly to mix up two- and three dimensionalities,
flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity."
I can rejoice over this perfection
and bear witness to it with a clear conscience, for it was not I who invented
it or even discovered it. The laws of mathematics are not merely human inventions
or creations. Long before there were men on this globe, all the crystals grew
within the earth's crust. Then came a day when, for the very first time, a human
being perceived
one of these glittering fragments of regularity; or maybe he struck against
it with his stone ax; it broke away and fell at his feet; then he picked it
up and gazed at it lying there in his open hand. And he marveled. There is something
breathtaking about the basic laws of crystals. They are in no sense a discovery
of the human mind; they simply are; they exist quite independently of us. The
most that any man can do is to become aware, in a moment
of clarity, that they are there, and take cognizance of them.
(M.C. Escher, 1898 - 1972)
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...consider _Three Spheres II_,
in which every part of the world seems to contain, and be contained in, every
other part: the writing table reflects the spheres on top of it, the spheres
reflect each other, as well as the writing table, the drawing of them, and the
artist drawing it. The endless connections which all things have to each
other is only hinted at here, yet the hint is enough. The Buddhist allegory
of "Indra's
Net" tells of an endless net of threads throughout the universe, the horizontal
threads running hrough space, the vertical ones through time.
At every crossing of threads is an individual, and every individual is a crystal
bead. The great light
of "Absolute Being" illuminates and penetrates every crystal bead; moreoever,
every crystal bead reflects not only the light from every other crystal in the
net - but also every reflection of every reflection throughout the universe.
& _Worlds Within Worlds_ MP3 (192k)
by Cylob off of _Mood Bells_ CD on EFA (2002) |
- Douglas Hofstadter - _Godel,
Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid_ (1980)
Why
Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
M.C. Escher: Are you so sure he really crossed
it? Look again..
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Anomalog:
by Peter Benisch off of _Soundtrack Saga_ CD on Turbo Recordings (2001)
by AFX aka Aphex
Twin off of _Analogue Bubblebath_
12" on TVT (1994)
by Teenage Fanclub off of _Thirteen_ (1993)(18.3megs)left.
by Metamatics off of _Neo Ouija_
on P-Vine (1998)
by Momus off of _Little Red Songbook_ on Le Grand (1998) |
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