Works of M.C Escher
Written by Al Holt (4565)
The first artwork of
the drawing hands uses the principle of continuation as it works over
itself in a circular motion. I found this work to also contain a
principle that once upon time I came across in a work of Friedrich
Nietzsche (either “Beyond Good and Evil” or “Thus spoke
Zarathustra”) called “Causa Sui”, translated as “Cause of
itself”. This principle was given as an example of describing a
self creating god, however it can be implied here as this piece shows
an artwork in perpetual motion.
The second image of black and white swans flying about uses the principle of proximity, due to the tight knit grouping of the birds, this bevy of swans is seen and one formation per shade (white and black), thus we differentiate between them by shade rather than shape, even though there is but one group. Another principle used here is “Similarity”, the flight paths of the two groups creates a lemniscate form, the infinity symbol. We see the symbol instantly as the shading of the swans lets us break them apart into two groups. The shading in this case could to some extent be considered as by-product of the principle “figure and ground”, yet not in its entirety, as the shading works as a break away between the swans rather than the background itself.
Image references:
http://www.bocamuseum.org/clientuploads/Podcasts1/29_Drawing%20Hands%20by%20Escher.jpg
http://uploads4.wikiart.org/images/m-c-escher/swans.jpg
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