I remember one such frenzy when I discovered the work of Kim Jung Gi. I have sometimes lost weeks and months at a time, in the pursuit of various technical skills. will even make his choice of subject subordinate to this desire to explore some particular facet of technique. There is tremendous satisfaction acquisition of artistic skill. He trained to be a print-maker, and spent an early part of his career devoted to the pursuit of technical mastery.Īnyone who applies himself to the practice of graphic technique may … hold, as his highest ideal, the complete mastery of his craft. With this in mind, let’s look at the things that inspired Mauritz Cornelius Escher. But I hope to be able to answer it by the end of this series. “I consider my work the most beautiful and also the ugliest.” - MC Escher, on the book’s dust jacket. I find this an incredible opportunity to not only understand what made him create, but also the circumstances of his career at the moment of inspiration. My great discovery after browsing through the images was to find that all the words in it were also written by the artist, describing his pieces and their various inspirations. As a result, I cherish collecting them now.

Growing up, these books always felt out of reach, for they would be too expensive. Sometimes they are inspirational, and often useful reference material.

I often buy secondhand books of art to look at the pictures. I recently bought a secondhand book of his work, called “MC Escher: The Graphic Work”.

Escher tessellation images