Escher, M.C. - Ilustração
Eight Heads, 1922
Woodcut, block printed four times
32.5 x 34 cm (12 13/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
Tower of Babel, 1928
Woodcut
62 x 38,5 cm
Infant (A.E. Escher), 1929
Woodcut in red-brown and two tones of pink, printed from three blocks
Castrovalva (Abruzzi), 1930
Lithograph
53 x 42.1 cm (20 7/8 x 16 5/8 in.)
Still Life with Mirror, 1934
Lithograph
39.4 x 28.7 cm (15 1/2 x 11 1/4 in.)
Still Life with reflecting globe, 1934
Lithograph
28,5 x 32,5 cm
St. Peter's, Rome, 1935
Wood-engraving
24 x 32 cm
Hell (copy after a scene by Hieronymous Bosch), 1935
Lithograph
25.1 x 21.4 cm (9 7/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
Scarabs, 1935
Wood engraving on laid paper
21.1 x 32.1 cm
Hand with Reflecting Sphere, 1935
Lithograph on silver-coated wove paper
43.5 x 25 cm
Day and Night, 1938
Woodcut in black and gray, printed from two blocks
39.1 x 67.7 cm (15 3/8 x 26 5/8 in.)
Cycle, 1938
Lithograph
47,5 x 28 cm
Sky and water I, 1938
Woodcut
44 x 44 cm
Sky and Water II, 1938
Woodcut
62.3 x 40.7 cm (24 1/2 x 16 in.)
Fish, c. 1942
Woodcut on textile
Reptiles, 1943
Lithograph
33.4 x 38.5 cm (13 1/8 x 15 1/8 in.)
Ant, 1943
Lithograph
Diploma Tijdelijke Academie, 1945
Woodcut, fourth state
34.2 x 24 cm (13 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
Doric Columns, 1945
Wood-engraving printed from three blocks
32 x 24 cm
Three Spheres I, 1945
Wood engraving on wove paper
36.6 x 29 cm
Eye, 1946
Mezzotint
Third state (upper left)
Fourth state (lower left)
Sixth state (upper right)
Seventh and final state (lower right)
31.9 x 31.7 cm (12 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)
Other world II, 1947
Wood-engraving printed from three blocks
31,5 x 26 cm
Drawing Hands, 1948
Lithograph
28.2 x 33.2 cm (11 1/8 x 13 1/8 in.)
Sun and Moon, 1948
Woodcut printed from four blocks
25.1 x 27 cm (9 7/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
Dewdrop, 1948
Mezzotint
18 x 24,5 cm
Stars, 1948
Wood engraving in black, turquoise, yellow and pink on wove paper
39.6 x 32.6 cm
Double Planetoid, 1949
Wood engraving in black, yellow ochre, pale-green, and dark-blue on wove paper
46.7 x 50.3 cm
Curl-up, 1951
Lithograph on wove paper
29.4 x 44.5 cm; image
Puddle, 1952
Woodcut in three colors
24 x 31.9 cm (9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)
Cubic space division, 1952
Lithograph
27 x 26,5 cm.
Relativity, 1953
Woodcut
28.2 x 29.4 cm (11 1/8 x 11 5/8 in.)
Spirals, 1953
Wood engraving in black and grey on wove paper
32.6 x 39.6 cm
Three Worlds, 1955
Lithograph
36.2 x 24.7 cm (14 1/4 x 9 3/4 in.)
Depth, 1955
Wood-engraving printed from three blocks
32 x 23 cm.
Concave and convex, 1955
Lithograph
28 x 33,5 cm
Rind, 1955
Colour wood engraving and woodcut on japan paper
43.3 x 30.7 cm
Bond of Union, 1956
Lithograph
25.3 x 33.9 cm (10 x 13 3/8 in.)
Swans, 1956
Wood-engraving
20 x 32 cm
Print Gallery, 1956
Lithograph
31.9 x 31.7 cm (12 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)
Mosaic II, 1957
Lithograph
32 x 37 cm
Cube with Ribbons, 1957
Lithograph on wove paper
39.1 x 39.2 cm
Belvedere, 1958
Lithograph
46.2 x 29.5 cm (18 1/4 x 11 5/8 in.)
Flat Worms, 1959
Lithograph
34 x 41,5 cm
Fish and Scales, 1959
Woodcut on japan paper
48.3 x 46.4 cm
Circle Limit III, 1959
Woodcut in black, rust, green, blue and orange on japan paper
46.9 x 51 cm
Ascending and Descending, 1960
Lithograph
35.5 x 28.5 cm (14 x 11 1/4 in.)
Waterfall, 1961
Lithograph
38 x 30 cm (15 x 11 3/4 in.)
Mobius Strip I, 1961
Wood engraving and woodcut in black, red, green and gold on japan paper
31.4 x 32.1 cm
Moebius Strip II (Red Ants), 1963
Woodcut printed from three blocks
45.3 x 20.5 cm (17 7/8 x 8 1/8 in.)
Knots, 1965
Woodcut in black, orange and green on laid japan paper
53.3 x 42.3 cm
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Mauritus Cornelis Escher, nasceu em Leeuwarden na Holanda em 1898, faleceu em 1970 e dedicou toda a sua vida às artes gráficas. Na sua juventude não foi um aluno brilhante, nem sequer manifestava grande interesse pelos estudos, mas os seus pais conseguiram convencê-lo a ingressar na Escola de Belas Artes de Haarlem para estudar arquitectura. Foi lá que conheceu o seu mestre, um professor de Artes Gráficas judeu de origem portuguesa, chamado Jesserum de Mesquita. Com o professor Mesquita, Escher aprendeu muito, conheceu as técnicas de desenho e deixou-se fascinar pela arte da gravura. Este fascínio foi tão forte que levou Mauritus a abandonar a Arquitectura e a seguir as Artes Gráficas. Quando terminou os seus estudos, Escher decide viajar, conhecer o mundo! Passou por Espanha, Itália e fixou-se em Roma, onde se dedicou ao trabalho Gráfico. Mais tarde, por razões políticas muda-se para a Suíça, posteriormente para a Bélgica e em 1941 regressa ao seu país natal. Estas passagens por diferentes sítios, por diferentes culturas, inspiraram a mente de Escher, nomeadamente a passagem por Alhambra, em Granada, onde conheceu os azulejos mouros. Este contacto com a arte árabe está na base do interesse e da paixão de Escher pela divisão regular do plano em figuras geométricas que se transfiguram, se repetem e reflectem, pelas pavimentações. Porém, no preenchimento de superfícies, Escher substituía as figuras abstracto-geométricas, usadas pelos árabes, por figuras concretas, perceptíveis e existentes na natureza, como pássaros, peixes, pessoas, répteis, etc. Escher, sem conhecimento matemático prévio mas através do estudo sistemático e da experimentação, descobre todos os diferentes grupos de combinações isométricas que deixam um determinado ornamento invariante. A reflexão é brilhantemente utilizada na xilografia "Day and Night", uma das gravuras mais emblemáticas da carreira de Escher.
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Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) is one of the world's most famous graphic artists. His art is enjoyed by millions of people all over the world. He created visual riddles, playing with the pictorially logical and the visually impossible.
He is most famous for his so-called "impossible structures", such as Ascending and Descending, Relativity, his Transformation Prints, such as Metamorphosis I, Metamorphosis II and Metamorphosis III, Sky & Water I or Reptiles. M.C. Escher, during his lifetime, made 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings and over 2000 drawings and sketches. Like some of his famous predecessors, - Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer and Holbein-, M.C. Escher was left-handed. Apart from being a graphic artist, M.C. Escher illustrated books, designed tapestries, postage stamps and murals. He was born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, as the fourth and youngest son of a civil engineer. After 5 years the family moved to Arnhem where Escher spent most of his youth. After failing his highschool exams, Maurits ultimately was enrolled in the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem. After only one week, he informed his father that he would rather study graphic art then architecture, as he had shown his drawings and linoleum cuts to his graphic teacher Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, who encouraged him to continue with graphic arts. After finishing school, he traveled extensively through Italy, where he met his wife Jetta Umiker, whom he married in 1924. They settled in Rome, where they stayed until 1935. During these 11 years, Escher would travel each year throughout Italy, drawing and sketching for the various prints he would make when he returned home. Many of these sketches he would later use for various other lithographs and/or woodcuts and wood engravings, for example the background in the lithograph Waterfall stems from his Italian period, or the trees reflecting in the woodcut Puddle, which are the same trees Escher used in his woodcut "Pineta of Calvi", which he made in 1932. He played with architecture, perspective and impossible spaces. His art continues to amaze and wonder millions of people all over the world. In his work we recognize his keen observation of the world around us and the expressions of his own fantasies. M.C. Escher shows us that reality is wondrous, comprehensible and fascinating.
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12:45 PMobrigada.....talentoso...sedutor de imagem....
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bom rever-te e reencontrar-te.
10:35 PM
Una excelente colección de obras de arte de Escher...muy útil para reflexionar e incluir algunas imágenes en revistas o publicaciones, en especial las de ciencia...
Miguel A. Megias,
Profesor de Ingeniería
3:59 PM
Maravilhosa seleção! Estava procurando algumas imagens para trabalhar com meus alunos e encontrei muitas possíbilidades!
Vou publicar algumas idéias no meu blog!
Grande Abraço
Sintian
1:11 PM
Escher foi um criador excepcional, único. A nossa imaginação se perde em devaneios ao depararmos com suas telas.
Belíssima postagem. Aliás, as usual, don´t you?
:o)
10:24 PM
Excelente post! Gostei de rever e também ver pela primeira vez muitas criações!
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