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Inspirations: A Short Film Celebrating the Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher

| Film and animation | February 27, 2012

escher ascending descending

Most of us are familiar with the work of Dutch graphic artist and mathematician M.C.Escher. He is most famous for his so-called impossible structures such as; Ascending and Descending (see above), Relativity, his Transformation Prints, such as Metamorphosis I, Metamorphosis II and Metamorphosis III, Sky and Water I or Reptiles.

In this short film Spanish filmmaker Cristóbal Vila has made a three minute work inspired by Escher, a piece that imagines how Eschers workplace might have been like;

what things would surround an artist like him, so deeply interested in science in general and mathematics in particular

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