http://cargocollective.com M.C. Escher - Cargo example design Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:10:19 +0000 http://cargocollective.com en http://cargocollective.com/escher/Droom-Dream http://cargocollective.com/escher/following/escher/Droom-Dream Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:10:19 +0000 M.C. Escher - Cargo example design 623 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/623/Sueno.jpg" width="670" height="892" width_o="758" height_o="1009" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/623/Sueno_o.jpg" data-mid="819" border="0" align="left"/> http://cargocollective.com/escher/Bloem-Flower http://cargocollective.com/escher/following/escher/Bloem-Flower Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:29:57 +0000 M.C. Escher - Cargo example design 628 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/628/flower_1.jpg" width="622" height="597" width_o="622" height_o="597" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/628/flower_1_o.jpg" data-mid="826" border="0" align="left"/> http://cargocollective.com/escher/Dolor-Sit-Amet-Deus http://cargocollective.com/escher/following/escher/Dolor-Sit-Amet-Deus Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:27:57 +0000 M.C. Escher - Cargo example design 627 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/627/Capas_concentricas.jpg" width="670" height="665" width_o="1000" height_o="993" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/627/Capas_concentricas_o.jpg" data-mid="824" border="0" align="left"/> http://cargocollective.com/escher/Dew-Drop-Dauwdruppel http://cargocollective.com/escher/following/escher/Dew-Drop-Dauwdruppel Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:22:58 +0000 M.C. Escher - Cargo example design 626 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/626/Gota_de_rocio.jpg" width="670" height="487" width_o="1267" height_o="921" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/626/Gota_de_rocio_o.jpg" data-mid="823" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/626/bondofunion.jpg" width="670" height="503" width_o="670" height_o="503" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/626/bondofunion_o.jpg" data-mid="1797002" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/626/day_and_night.jpg" width="670" height="386" width_o="670" height_o="386" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/626/day_and_night_o.jpg" data-mid="1797003" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/626/threespheres.jpg" width="670" height="1015" width_o="670" height_o="1015" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/626/threespheres_o.jpg" data-mid="1797005" border="0" align="left"/> Zijn gravures verbeelden vaak onmogelijke constructies, studies van oneindigheid en in elkaar passende meetkundige patronen (vlakverdelingen) die geleidelijk in volstrekt verschillende vormen veranderen. Veel van de werelden die hij tekende zijn ontworpen rond onmogelijke objecten zoals de Necker-kubus en de Penrose-driehoek. Pas in de jaren vijftig van de vorige eeuw kreeg hij in bredere kring erkenning als kunstenaar, vooral in de VS. Kristallografen en wiskundigen ontdekten in zijn werk symmetrieën en thema's uit hun vakgebieden. Vanaf 1960 wordt Eschers grafische werk gebruikt in wetenschappelijke (leer)boeken. Zijn gravures verbeelden vaak onmogelijke constructies, studies van oneindigheid en in elkaar passende meetkundige patronen (vlakverdelingen) die geleidelijk in... http://cargocollective.com/escher/Butterflies http://cargocollective.com/escher/following/escher/Butterflies Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:18:52 +0000 M.C. Escher - Cargo example design 625 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/625/Mariposas.jpg" width="670" height="726" width_o="921" height_o="998" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/625/Mariposas_o.jpg" data-mid="822" border="0" align="left"/> http://cargocollective.com/escher/Tetrahedral-planetoid http://cargocollective.com/escher/following/escher/Tetrahedral-planetoid Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:13:45 +0000 M.C. Escher - Cargo example design 624 In this print Escher imagined a small planet in the shape of a tetrahedron, or pyramid. Two of the four surfaces are visible and show houses, gardens, trees, roads, and people. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/624/Planetoide_tetraedrico_1.jpg" width="670" height="673" width_o="1004" height_o="1008" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/624/Planetoide_tetraedrico_1_o.jpg" data-mid="821" border="0" align="left"/> In this print Escher imagined a small planet in the shape of a tetrahedron, or pyramid. Two of the four surfaces are visible and show houses, gardens, trees, roads,... http://cargocollective.com/escher/Toren-van-Tower-of-Babel http://cargocollective.com/escher/following/escher/Toren-van-Tower-of-Babel Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:01:35 +0000 M.C. Escher - Cargo example design 622 Tower of Babel is a 1928 woodcut by M. C. Escher. It depicts the Babylonians attempting to build a tower to reach God, a story that is recounted in Genesis 11:9. God frustrated their attempts by creating a confusion of languages so the builders could no longer understand each other and the work halted. Although Escher dismissed his work before 1935 as of little or no value as they were "for the most part merely practice exercises", some of them, including the Tower of Babel, chart the development of his interest in perspective and unusual viewpoints that would become the hallmarks of his later, more famous, work. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/622/tower_of_babel.jpg" width="670" height="1096" width_o="819" height_o="1340" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/622/tower_of_babel_o.jpg" data-mid="818" border="0" align="left"/> In contrast to many other depictions of the biblical story, such as those by Pieter Brueghel the Elder (The Tower of Babel) and Gustave Doré (The Confusion of Tongues), Escher depicts it as a geometrical structure and places the viewpoint above the tower. This allows him to exercise his skill with perspective, but he centred the picture around the top of the tower because that was the focus for the climax of the action. He later commented: Some of the builders are white and others black. The work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to understand one another. Seeing as the climax of the drama takes place at the summit of the tower which is under construction, the building has been shown from above though from a birds eye view. (via) Tower of Babel is a 1928 woodcut by M. C. Escher. It depicts the Babylonians attempting to build a tower to reach God, a story that is recounted in Genesis 11:9.... http://cargocollective.com/escher/Stars http://cargocollective.com/escher/following/escher/Stars Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:56:04 +0000 M.C. Escher - Cargo example design 620 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/620/stars.jpg" width="670" height="821" width_o="770" height_o="944" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/620/stars_o.jpg" data-mid="816" border="0" align="left"/> Stars is a wood engraving print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which was first printed in October 1948. It depicts a bevelled wireframe of 3 compound octahedra floating in space with two chameleons contained within. Numerous other polyhedra, including two icosahedra, float in the background. One of the lesser stars in the lower right corner of this print is a solid octahedron 3-compound. Two stella octangula appear, one solid compound in the lower left and one bevelled wireframe in the upper right. A cuboctahedron appears in the lower left. The C3 compound of two cubes appears twice: in the lower left as a bevelled wireframe and in the lower center as a solid. A small rhombicuboctahedron appears in the middle right. A deltoidal icositetrahedron appears in the middle right. A small triakis octahedron appears in the middle right. A pentagonal dipyramid appears in the lower left. A cube-octahedron compound appears in the upper left. A 4-trapezohedron (deltohedron) appears in the upper left. An elongated square dipyramid (having a central ribbon composed of rectangles instead of squares) appears in the top center. A rhombic dodecahedron appears in the upper right. Two dodecahedra also appear. The chameleon on the left sticks out his tongue, perhaps in commentary. Stars is a wood engraving print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which was first printed in October 1948. It depicts a bevelled wireframe of 3 compound octahedra... http://cargocollective.com/escher/Zelf-Portret-Self-portrait http://cargocollective.com/escher/following/escher/Zelf-Portret-Self-portrait Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:52:20 +0000 M.C. Escher - Cargo example design 619 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/619/self_portrait.jpg" width="537" height="1022" width_o="537" height_o="1022" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/619/self_portrait_o.jpg" data-mid="815" border="0" align="left"/> http://cargocollective.com/escher/Plas-Puddle http://cargocollective.com/escher/following/escher/Plas-Puddle Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:46:50 +0000 M.C. Escher - Cargo example design 618 Escher used to take a break from his intense sessions is his studio by walking in the woods and this print is a result of one of those walks. As in Three Worlds, also a result of these walks, he has captured within the puddle the multiple elements of physical reality: earth, water, sky. Civilization's mark is apparent in the tire tracks and footpirnts left in the mud. The tree branches reflected in the puddle are very similar to the trees seen in an earlier work from MCE's Italian landscape period, Pineta Of Calvi, Corsica, a 1933 woodcut. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/618/puddle.jpg" width="670" height="503" width_o="774" height_o="581" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/92/618/puddle_o.jpg" data-mid="814" border="0" align="left"/> 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. Escher used to take a break from his intense sessions is his studio by walking in the woods and this print is a result of one of those walks. As in Three Worlds,...