Knowledge 2
M.C. Escher and
Op Art through Minimal Art
Maurits Cornelis Escher
M.C. Escher
White Cat
1919
woodcut
Alfedena, Abruzzi
August 1929
scratch board
Italian landscape Siena
January 1923
ink drawing
Fireworks
November 1933
lithograph
Alhambra wood mosaic ceiling
Escher’s visit to Alhambra in Spain assisted in his
development of tessellation compositions years later.
Circle Limit III
Mosaic ceiling drawing from Alhambra
October 22, 1922
drawing
December 1959
woodcut in five colors / tessellation
M.C. Escher
Emblemata
First & second title page 1932
tessellations
M.C. Escher
Plane Filling II
July 1957
lithograph
M.C. Escher
Reptiles
1943 Lithograph
For over 40 years, M.C. Escher created magnificent prints and drawings
which make us questions our perceptual reality.
M. C. Escher
Autre Monde
(Another World)
1947
Woodcut
M.C. Escher
Drawing Hands
1948
Lithograph
M. C. Escher
Relativity
1958
Lithograph
Op Art (Optical Art)
Victor Vasarely
Ibadan
Eridan II
1956
Op Art
Victor Vasarely
Vega-Gyongiy 2
1971 Acrylic on board 31 ½” x 31 ½”
Pauk 101
1968 Oil 35 ½” x 39 ½”
Bridget Riley
Op Art
Uneasy Centre
1963
Movement in Squares
1961
Bridget Riley
Falls
1963 Polymer paint on wood 5’x 5’
Op Art
Cataract 3
1967
Marcel Duchamp
Readymades
Bicycle Wheel 1913
Bottle Rack 1914
Fountain
1917
L.H.O.O.Q.
Dada Art
1919
Neo-Dada
Jasper Johns
Green Target 1955
Canvas
1956
Neo-Dada
Jasper Johns
Zero through Nine
1961
Three Flags
1958
Jasper Johns
Neo-Dada
Flags 1963
White Flag 1955-1958
Jasper Johns
His bronze sculptures were artistic forms
pretending to be junk, pretending to be art.
Painted Bronzes
1960s
Neo-Dada
Conceptual Art
Sol LeWitt
Wall Drawing No. 652
1990
colored pencils
Joseph Kosuth
One and Three Chairs
1965
An actual chair, a photograph of a chair & the definition of chair.
Does each represent a chair?
Conceptual Art
Walter de Maria
Invisible Word Drawing
1965
Minimal Art
James Turrell
Gard Blue 1968
Juke Green
1968
James Turrell
St Elmo’s Breath
1992
Minimal Art
James Turrell
Heavy Water
Confort Moderne, Poitier, France
1991-1992
James Turrell
Skyspace
at Roden Crater
1978 – current
Turrell purchased Roden Crater
in Arizona and has been working
inside it for over 30 years.