Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It's not often that a legendary artist – globally adored, endlessly analysed and relentlessly reproduced – manages to keep a secret. But ...

In the 1960s, the mathematically inspired images of Dutch artist M.C. Escher became a feature of popular culture. I remember album covers, T-shirts, posters and jigsaw puzzles emblazoned with the ...

‘Drawing Hands’ and the illusion-inducing ‘Ascending and Descending’. These two works, which you have likely seen at least once, are both by the Dutch printmaker Maurits Cornelis Escher. While the ...

M C Escher fuses maths with art as he turns the principle of tessellation in to graphic art, later expanding into works that explore dimensions, infinity, and illogical physics, such as the Impossible ...

For people like herself, says Anneke Bart, math is like a puzzle. “We sit around and play with pictures and dink around,” says the professor of mathematics. That’s how, faced with a tough question, ...

Students in the third grade at Fletcher Elementary didn't realize their first steps through the door Tuesday would be part of their math lesson later in the afternoon taught by Principal Chris Dodge. ...

The Dutch printmaker Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher (1898-1972) followed in historical foundational art footsteps. His preoccupation with perspective was like that of the Renaissance; his ...

A documentary examines the methods and interests of this Dutch printmaker, who felt his work was also indebted to mathematics. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Staircases that lead to an infinite loop, divisions of plane into imaginative space, and hands that draw themselves—these are some of the images we associate with M.C. Escher. His inventive and ...