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MC Escher
He represents the perfect coming together of mathematics and art. Although he is most known for his impossible constructions, he also created some wonderful realistic graphic art.
His full name is Maurits Cornelis Escher and he was left-handed
His most famous works are images that look convincing but defy logic. Some of them are ‘Drawing Hands‘ (1948), in which two hands draw each other; ‘Relativity‘ (1953), in which normal laws of gravity don’t apply; ‘Ascending and Descending‘ (1960), which is based on the Penrose Staircase; and ‘Up and Down‘ (1947) and ‘Waterfall‘ (1961), which are based on the concept of Mobius strip, a surface with only one side.
“Only those who attempt the absurd will
achieve the impossible. I think it’s in my
basement...let me go upstairs and check.”
-M.C.Escher
Escher is referred to as the Father of Modern Tessellations
After his second visit to Alhambra, Escher spent a great deal of time experimenting with an area of mathematics known as tessellation. Tessellation is dividing the plane into multiple tiles with no overlaps and no gaps. They have been used in the art at Alhambra. During his lifetime Escher created 137 drawings based on the principle of tessellation. In his famous “Metamorphosis” series, Escher told a story by morphing images into a tessellated pattern and then slowly the pattern altered giving rise to a new image.