The Man, The Genius, The Mathematician, The Immortal: M.C. Escher
"In my prints I try to show that we live in a beautiful and orderly world and not in a chaos without norms... I cannot help mocking our unwavering certainties... to confuse two and three dimensions, the plane and space or to poke fun at gravity (Locher 124)." These words were spoken by an artisan who overcame the struggles of a misdirected youth. This very same artisan became a legend. Maurtis Cornelis Escher, a self-taught mathematical genius, created widely recognized graphic masterpieces. Escher had the rare, yet esteemed…
