Escher on Escher - 1 Impossible Objects

Impossible Objects
The step after “relativities”
Belvedere, 1958
• “…a belvedere with three floors, seen
against a mountainous background.
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• Belvedere
• 1958 Lithograph
• The ladder in the
center, though drawn
correctly according to
the rules of perspective
and quite acceptable as
an object, stands with
its base inside the
house, but outside with
its top.
• The two persons are in
an impossible relation
to each other.”
• Detail from Belvedere
• On the floor lies a piece
of paper on which the
edges of a cube are
drawn.
• Which lines lie in front?
• The boy sitting on the
bench has a cuboid
puzzle. Which lie is in
front and which in back.
Sites to Visit
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Programs: http://im-possible.info/english/programs/index.html
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Jerry Andrus and Box: http://www.wonderhowto.com/wonderment/jerry-
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Ascending and
Descending
• “… complex of buildings, a kind of cloister with
a rectangular inner court.
• Instead of a roof, it has a closed circuit of stairs
that enables the inhabitants to walk around on
the top of their dwelling.
• It may be part of their daily ritual duty tp ascend
this stairway,in a clockwise directionb during
certain hours. When they are tired, they can
change direction and descend for a while.
• Ascending and
Descending
• 1960
• Lithograph
• L. S. Penrose Staircase
• Shown to Escher by L. S. Penrose.
Waterfall
• “The water of a fall, which sets in motion a
miller’s wheel, zigzags gently down through a
gutter between two towers till it reaches the
point from which it falls again.”
• The background is a south Italian terrace
landscape, and the lower-left corner is filled
with much-enlarged moss plants.”
…Waterfall continued…
• “the towers are equally high, and yet the left
is one story higher than the other.
• The polyhedrons on their tops have no
special significance. I have put them there
simply because I like them so much: To the
left three intersecting cubes, to the right three
octohedrons.”
• WaterFall
• 1961
• Lithograph
“The theme of this
self-supporting
Waterfall is based upon
… a creation of
Roger Penrose, who is
son of the inventor of
the “continuous
staircase”
Impossible Triangle
• Roger Penrose
•
Oscar Reutersvard
Potential Project?
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