Alongside Monet’s water lilies and van Gogh’s swirling night sky, the telescoping staircases and precise forced perspectives of M.C. Escher are some of the most identifiable motifs in the Western art ...
In 1954, a young Roger Penrose was attending the International Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam when he came across the work of Maurits Cornelis Escher, a Dutch artist and print-maker. Escher’s ...