M.C.
Escher is one of my favorite artists for a number of obvious reasons; his
lithograph print depicting a world without the application of the normal laws
of gravity is truly revolutionary. It is reminiscent of those “mind tricks”
that are all over social media these days, ranging from the sticks that looks
like there are either 3 or 4 of them to the passage with scrambled words but is
legible due to the uniformity of the first and last letter of each word.
The three-point
perspective that Escher utilizes is not that hard to figure out as there is the
three vanishing point diagram of the equilateral triangle that he based his
artwork off of. Due to this model, the image displays three different pictures
when rotated on each side of the “triangle.” With every rotation, the lighting
and shading seems to make sense as the sun is shined from above, but since the “up”
is different for each rotation, the image has different areas of dark and
bright lighting for each position. The strong theoretical and geometrical
design, often indicative of Escher’s style, depicts harsh edges and uniformity
in an already complex artwork.
