I suppose that is what I meant by his earlier works. He was a graphics artist and used that ability in his later works. The Escher Museum displayed his work in chronological order which was good - you realised the detail behind the illusion.
The problem is that earlier stuff is not well known and even at the Escher Museum the books on sale did not include them. We have now found a book that includes many of his early works.
But what I want to know is what was he on? I want some
I have a book entitled "The Magic Mirror of M C Escher" and that details his entire life, right through from some quit ordinary colour studies of places he visited in the Mediterranean right through to what he was working on in the retirement home for Jewish artists in Holland.
In fact you can still get it. It features a lot of his works reproduced to a high standard and reasonable size:
migeater0 wrote:You should see the one at Bournemouth. I know a couple of you would throw a hissy fit.
Would that be the HAS.3 painted in RAF markings?
I believe there are plans to put it back as soon as funds are available. As long as it is not the museum who did this and they plan to correct it in the near future it isn't a problem.
I'm probably on my own here, but I think that any art should challenge and break the rules laid down by it's predecessors. Every new art movement since the year dot has been criticised by those who dont like change, so there is nothing new in the arguments above.:roll: No doubt at some point in the future something else will come along and make the Damien Hursts of this world redundant.
The arguments above seem to follow the line of "I don't understand it so it must be crap". I don't understand opera so does that make the work of Mozart rubbish? I don't think so.
Must admit that my favourite bit of 20th Century painting is the scheme carried on the RN Hunters at Lossie in the 1970s. Bet nobody knows the name of the chap who painted them. :redface:
