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Relativity

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Relativity. In the lithograph "Relativity," the artist demonstrates how our vision can play tricks on us. A room full of staircases runs every which way - right side up, sideways and upside down.

Maurits Cornelis Escher (1897-1972), was a Dutch graphic artist known for his unique and fascinating works of art that explore and exhibit a wide range of mathematical ideas and geometric principles: impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations, mosaics of repetitive designs in which positive and negative images interconnect and sometimes blend into one another.

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Relativity by M.C. Escher
 

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