Escher is nowhere near as hard-hitting as Goya—he is out to delight with illusion, not to warn with evil visions—but the imagery unleashed through his fantasies is quite deliberately alien. M ...

It’s an artwork that has been reproduced countless times in popular culture. But behind the familiar picture is a mysterious figure. Alastair Sooke goes in search of MC Escher. It must be one of ...

Escher may be best known for his mind-bending drawings, but a coming sale at Christie's shows a broader picture of the Dutch ...

It’s an artwork that has been reproduced countless times in popular culture. But behind the familiar picture is a mysterious figure. Alastair Sooke goes in search of MC Escher. It must be one of ...

Now Escher, the extraordinary Dutch graphic artist, has a sweeping exhibition of more than 180 prints and drawings up in “M.C. Escher: Reality and Illusion,” at the Currier Museum of Art.

It has been reproduced countless times in popular culture. But behind the familiar picture is a mysterious figure. Alastair Sooke goes in search of MC Escher.

As we take in what seems to be a golden age of documentaries focusing on a wide array of subjects, filmmakers chronicling the works of visual artists have an especially difficult task at hand.

Escher’s optical illusion created with the technique is incredibly complex; mere descriptions along the line of: “the intersection of the black and white birds flying over a farm field, ...

MC Escher’s illusions of perspective. Everyone will have seen a few of MC Escher’s complex visual puzzles, but few are familiar with the artist’s broader trajectory.

M. C. Escher illusion artwork. The mid-journey workflow encourages creativity and exploration, although it may produce many unsuccessful attempts before achieving a successful result.

Another illusion created by M.C. Escher, the impossible cube first appeared in one of his lithographs called "Belevedere." The cube is another example of a shape violating Euclidean geometry.