Yet his ‘uniqueness’ is not entirely loan free. It also provokes contrasting emotions in the viewer, the darker images set against the warmth and humour in others.
Close scrutiny of the exhibits reveals a clinical attention to detail that shows the patience as well as the ingenuity of the man.Įscher’s work combines the methodology of the mathematician, the geometrician and the architect with the elegant skills of an accomplished artist. The range and depth of Escher’s work is formidable. The fascinating story and prolific output of this modern Dutch master is told in the first UK exhibition of his work at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. There is no evidence that he ever met Matisse and despite being wooed by the Rolling Stones and by the psychedelia of the hippies he took little notice and confessed to never having heard of Mick Jagger. Maurits Escher, a printmaker and graphic designer by trade, became renowned for his other-worldly lithographs and woodcuts a one-man art movement with a style that marked him out from his contemporaries. He was an adopted son of the Sixties pop culture and admired by the surrealists who likened him to the painter Matisse, yet in the pantheon of art movements there are individuals who defy categorisation.
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