Escher Mosaics

Maurits Cornelis Escher (Netherlands. Maurits Cornelis Escher; June 17, 1898 - March 27, 1972) is a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his conceptual lithographs, woodcuts and metal engravings, in which he masterfully explored the plastic aspects of the concepts of infinity and symmetry, as well as the peculiarities of the psychological perception of complex three-dimensional objects. Maurits Escher was one of the first to depict fractals in his mosaic paintings. During the XII World Mathematical Congress in Amsterdam in 1954, an exhibition of Escher's works was opened. A mathematical description of fractals was proposed only in the 1970s (the term "fractal" was introduced in 1975).