At school he was a real landslide, especially in mathematics, but when he began to devote himself to woodcut and litografia became a real talent. Escher he became an idol in the scientific field, to the point of highlighting some mathematical laws and the logic hidden in them in such a way as to amaze the experts.
He was born in Leeuwarden in 1898, the son of a wealthy engineer, and until the age of 50 he did not make ends meet and even if he was committed to painting, living among other things in Italy (1923-1935), life was a bit hostile to him . He sold his prints and designed magazine covers, postage stamps, banknotes, wallpaper and even murals for cemeteries.
In the 1952s, the wheel of fortune began to spin and in XNUMX he also participated in the Biennial di Venezia and began to earn even more than he expected. In just one year he sold 600 copies of prints.
Initially the buyers were mostly young Americans, interested in pop art and "hippies” who saw in him the first authentic artist psychedelic.
His paintings began to be seen printed on T-shirts, posters and record covers.
His personal exhibition of 1972 at the National Gallery of Compaction di Washington was a huge success with the public until his Holland.
Friends appreciated him for a sort of humor often present in his works, "I try above all to amaze, I want to excite people, not so much to please them as to make fun of them" said Escher.
Even mathematicians were enthusiastic about his work, although it was known that Escher understood nothing of that science. yet Escher demonstrated the basic principles of stereometry through the perfect use of perspective, and confuses scientists with his constructions of buildings that are nothing short of "impossible".
Escher with his art survives, challenges us, makes us change and still amuses us.
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