Nick+C.



M.C. Escher

My artist is Maurits Cornelis Escher other wise known as M.C. Escher he is one of the worlds greatest graphic artist. He was born June 17 1898 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. He grew up in Arnhem witch is in the Netherlands. His primary type of art is drawing. He likes to do pop art, Dutch illustrations, architecture, and murals. He went to school for architecture and decorative arts in Harlem. He became a drawer with the encourage of his teacher Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita. He was big in the art world he let millions of people see his work and they enjoyed it. In my opinion he is a very skilled artist especially in his day of age. Some personal information is that he married Jetta Umiker in 1924. In his lifetime he has achieved great great things like he is famous he made over 2000 drawings. He is a genius of his time a great man. He has lived in many different places. His dad was a civil engineer. He was living and drawing in the time of world war one. He is just a great man, an interesting man; he has achieved great things in his life.

Artist Statement

My project was based on M.C. Escher’s lizards how he’d make them all connect together. I did just the one lizard that makes the picture on my wikispaces website. It’s a lizard with marks that makes it fit together as one. M.C. Escher designed this lizard to fit like a puzzle that’s what makes it unique. I named my project the lizard because it’s a lizard. I worked hard on it for a week of school, to make my masterpiece. In my artwork I used pencil, color pencil, and sharpie because I thought id look good together. My inspiration was my artist himself M.C. Escher. He’s my inspiration because he’s a great artist and he made the idea of the piece of art I made. I wanted to just show this amazing lizard that I made that if u make a lot comes together as one. I enjoyed my project a lot because I thought it was going to be quick and easy but it was fun and exciting and was longer then what I thought it’d end up being. To sum up I had a really fun time making this project. It was worth the research and time working in class. I think my project turned out to be really good. I thought this project was fun because you got to pick what you wanted to do instead of having the teacher tell you what art project to do. I hope somebody else does this lizard or the puzzle of him or her next year because it’s a fun project to pick and its not the hardest project to do either. As you can see this project turned out fun and good in my opinion.

i got the artist picture from __http://www.seanmichaelragan.com/img/MC_Escher_single_lizard_tile.jpg__