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Artist of the week: Maurits Cornelius Escher
ARTinvestment.RU 19 декабря 2013
December 11 in the main building MMSI Petrovka, 25, in the Year of the Netherlands in Russia - 2013 opened a large-scale (more than 100 works) Maurits Cornelius Escher exhibition
December 11 in the main building MMSI Petrovka , 25, in the Year of the Netherlands in Russia - 2013 opened a large-scale ( more than 100 works ) Maurits Cornelius Escher exhibition . The creativity of the artist inspired many of the ideas of modern design and animation, and as a result, affect the reality that surrounds us , in many ways these designers and created .
 Maurits Cornelius Escher Self . 1943 Lithograph Source : wikipaintings.org |
Maurits Cornelius Escher was born June 17, 1898 in Leevardene , the administrative center of the province of Friesland in the Netherlands. Third , the youngest son of hydraulic engineer GA Escher and his second wife , Sarah Glichman ( Escher's father was still 2 sons from his first marriage , so for him Maurits was the fifth child ) , Maurits from early childhood had the opportunity to develop their natural talents . And although the study was not given Maurizio quite do what he was interested , he was not forbidden . So , since 1907 Maurits studied carpentry and piano in small workshops of the city of Arnhem , where his family moved from Leevardena in 1903 .
General Education , apparently not was registered on the list of priorities of the future artist , since he could not normally pass the final exams of high school ( where he studied from 1912 to 1918) , and even , according to some sources, flunked drawing. Although the school is art, obviously took it quite seriously is known , for example, linocut 1916 "Portrait of the artist's father ," that 18 -year-old Asher performed independently and in quite a decent level. In 1917, Escher attended the studio of the artist Gert Stigemana , in which he first stood behind the machine , of course, not realizing that one way or another will stand behind him all his life .
| M. Escher Portrait of GA Escher , father artist. 1916 linocut Source : mcesher.ru | M. Escher Sea at the mouth of the Ebro River. 1922 Watercolour Source : totallyhistory.com |
Following the wishes of his father , who wanted his son to have a university degree and a decent profession , consonant , however, talents son Maurits Escher in 1919 entered the department of architecture School of Architecture and ornament in Haarlem. However, nature took its course, and after a few months he was transferred to the class of graphic design under the leadership of Samuel de Mesquita Dzheserana . Asher later recalled that , " like most of his disciples , I have long been under the influence of the powerful personality of the artist ." You could even say that in the early stage of creativity Escher's influence was decisive for the formation of his artistic style .
However Escher art form not only and not so much under the influence of the academic school and creativity de Mesquita . Leto1921 Escher , the family held on the coast of the Italian Riviera , and quite unexpectedly , the young artist found inspiration in the southern nature : Italian kinds mesmerized Mauritz - and he drew endlessly all he saw around him .
Then also in 1921 , inspired by new emotions and experiences , Escher began experimenting with new woodcuts for yourself - woodcut . One of a series of engravings, " Easter Flowers " was even published in the journal .
 M. Escher Pansies . From the series « Easter Flowers ." 1921 Woodcut Source : totallyhistory.com | M. Escher Decorative ornament murals at the Alhambra. 1922 Watercolour Source : totallyhistory.com |
Italy was so struck by the artist that he was alone back there after graduating from college in 1922 year. And in September of the same year for the first time Escher visited the Spanish Alhambra - a masterpiece of Moorish architecture . Struck by the beauty of the Alhambra decor , he noted his " enormous complexity and mathematical- artistic sense ».
1920s - early 1930s in the work of Escher - the numerous experiments. He has been working productively in the lottery drawing , experimenting with style as well as the technicians , "... from 1922 to about 1935 ... I have done about seventy woodcuts ( longitudinal and face ) and over forty lithographs ." Asher later wrote: " ... many years of studies of graphic arts equipment went in my favor ; craft was not only my second nature , but at the transition to the necessity of reproduction techniques , revealing to me the ability to simultaneously communicate with the general public , which, in fact , I sought ».
 M. Escher The view of Ravello , Italy. 1923 Lithograph Source : wikipaintings. org | M. Escher The view of the city of Kairouan, Tunisia . 1929 Lithograph Source : totallyhistory.com |
Already in 1923 he had his first solo exhibition in Siena , and in 1924 - in The Hague. In the same 1924 Escher married Jetta (Jetta Umiker), whom he had met a year earlier in Italy. Generally , Italy , with its mild climate, spectacular views and a diverse and complex architecture for a long time has become the home for the artist. Here he lived and worked here his eldest sons were born . In 1926 George was born in 1928 appeared Arthur . The motives of the Italian landscape and architecture repeatedly occurred on the sheets of his work. Escher worked on ornamentation , served to illustrate the various issues involved in various types of commercial graphics. However, his real interest lay creativity in a completely different area. Ever since the days of study and more and more exciting idea Escher go beyond boundaries: the boundaries of life - the theme of death , beyond the boundaries of familiar concepts - mystical and surreal theme , beyond the real space - various optical and spatial effects .
His work is filled with optical illusions , such an unusual and fascinating clearly ahead of their time (the term op-art - from opticalart - appeared thirty years later ) quickly gained immense popularity. One after another, with exhibitions in Italy only in 1929 in Holland and Switzerland immediately passed his five solo exhibitions , opened a permanent exhibition in a museum in the Netherlands .
| M. Escher Hand with sphere . 1935 Lithography . 42,5 × 31,5 Christie's. 10.03.2009 . Lot 196 Estimate: 3 000-5 000 Result: 49,000 euros Source : christies.com |
Until 1935 he traveled : drove Europe , once again visited in Spain, made a trip to Tunisia , he was interested mainly in arabesques , local traditional designs and patterns , architecture. In 1935 , despite the former favor Mussolini , live in Italy, where the Nazis are increasingly gaining momentum , it became dangerous ; Asher was forced to move to neutral Switzerland , where the life and welfare of the family were virtually guaranteed . This event not only proved to be important for Escher - father of the family , but also a turning momentov development Escher artist .
 M. Escher Snow . 1936 Lithograph Source : totallyhistory.com |  M. Escher Development I. 1937 Woodcuts . 44 × 44 Source : totallyhistory.com |
After a sun-drenched Italian nature and architecture of the Nordic countries it is not inspired , and he turned again to the ideas , gleaned during his study of Italian architecture and Moorish patterns . Initially quite simple , in new works Escher they designed and costed , translated into complex compositions , elaborate schemes . Thus, from op art Escher moved to imp -art ( from impossibleart - Images can not be in terms of the geometry of shapes and objects , optical illusions ) and the particular story - often to abstract or surreal motifs .
There is a legend that one day he showed one of his abstract paintings to his brother Bir , professor of geology dealing with the problem of designing and growing crystals. My brother was so impressed with the complexity of design , composition and perfect symmetry of the figure, that he decided to use his ideas in crystallography . ( This , by the way , M. Escher relationship between creativity with the world of science is not broke : in 1959, the artist has performed at the International Congress of Crystallography in England on the topic of symmetry, and in 1965 published a book "Aspects of symmetry in the work of M. To . Escher ».)
Moving to Switzerland and the proximity of the war did not Escher homebody . Already in 1936 he again went to Spain . Complexity and ornamentation patterns Alhambra not let the artist a long time , and he again plunged into the study and copying Moorish tiles . Receiving proper periodic division planes into proportional parts , used for centuries in applications - to build ornaments, patterns , - one of the first Escher moved to the graphics and created a separate image resembling complex mosaic symmetrical kaleidoscope pictures , almost anticipating them the idea of fractals.
 M. Escher Day and night. 1938 Woodcuts . 39 × 68 Christie's. 20.03.2013 Lot 37 Estimate: 12 000-18 000 pounds Result: 37,500 pounds Source : christies.com |  M. Escher The sun and the moon . 1948 Woodcuts . 25 x 27,5 Christie's. 27-28.10.2009 . Lot 83 Estimate: 12 000-18 000 pounds Result: 37,500 pounds Source : christies.com |
by 1938 , when the light appeared third son , Ian, Asher is almost completely focused on solving complex compositional problems . Moreover, it is complicating their composition using as ornamental elements maximum simplified real-world figures . Thus arose the motif of two flying towards each other birds - black and white (in general , they can be any two contrasting colors ) . This story was the basis for his famous work " day and night " and later evolved into birds fish in " Sky and Water" (1938 ).
In 1941, Escher and his family moved to his native Holland, and from that time the artist's life gained visible sedentary . Immersed in the solution of spatial problems and logical constructions , it is no longer needed in an inspiring nature to such an extent as before .
| M. Escher Drawing Hands . 1948 Lithography . 28.5 x 34 Christie's. 31.10.2001 . Lot 83 Estimate: 45 000-55 000 dollars Result: 58,750 dollars Source : christies.com |
in the 1940s in the work of MC Escher volume originated . Two-dimensional space , studied and conquered , it was not so interesting , it has become a lot more to occupy the contradiction between the plane and space. Asher again out of bounds . Now this boundary plane of the sheet . His drawings volume now invade our world , arguing in its realism with the objects of the real space . Symmetry of his work is now complemented and complicated space sphericity . Sphere as a geometric shape and sphericity reception space as an important element of his compositions , in this period there is one of his most famous works , " Drawing Hands " (1948 ).
In 1948 Asher began to lecture on the symmetry and complex space of his works, and by 1950 his performances seriously perceived not only the public , but also the scientific community . In the same 1950, successfully held the first solo exhibition in the United States Escher .
In the work of the 1950s - a time when three-dimensional elements of his works gain perspective. The artist uses a promising reduction figures , reaching the effect of " go to infinity " - reduce to a point . The first study in which this technique was used , was called " less and less " (1956) . Interestingly, until 1958 objects in the works of Escher decrease as they approach the center of the picture , and after 1958 - on the contrary , as we move away from it. Beginning in 1956 , Escher uses this technique in almost every one of its work, including lists of the latest series " Snakes ", on which he worked in 1969 .