Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically-inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations.Themes in Escher's work are: contrast, duality, transformation, infinity and spatial paradoxes.
He uses symmetry to order this world of duality and paradox. In the slide above Escher explores the duality of order vs. chaos. We shall see how this idea influences his work, both formally and psychologically
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