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Selection is Distortion

In: M.C. Escher’s Legacy

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The first time I visited Escher in his studio in Baarn he was finishing the drawing for Print Gallery (see page 80). This was in 1956. I remarked that I did not like the drawing because of the ugly cross that filled the upper left side of the drawing. When I got home, I wrote him suggesting that he might be able to camouflage the cross by letting a clematis climb on it. Just imagine how cheeky that was! Escher was almost sixty, had more than earned his stripes as a graphic artist, and already enjoyed considerable recognition as the creator of very unusual prints. I was thirty and a teacher of mathematics. He wrote me a letter explaining why it was impossible for a clematis to climb on a window frame, and then went on to say that his prints were not meant to create something beautiful, but to evoke a sense of wonder in the viewers.

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  • Bruno Ernst, 2003. "Selection is Distortion," Springer Books, in: Doris Schattschneider & Michele Emmer (ed.), M.C. Escher’s Legacy, pages 5-16, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-28849-7_2
    DOI: 10.1007/3-540-28849-X_2
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