Artist Profile: M.C. Escher

     Maurits Cornelis Escher was born June 17, 1898 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. M.C.'s father was a civil engineer named George Arnold Escher and his mother was Sara Gleichman. Growing up he was not the best at school, he didn't get good grades and even failed second grade. M.C. still continued  with school and went on to the technical college of Delft, after that he went to Harlem school of architecture and decorative arts where he became a graphic artist. He moved to Italy where he met wife Jetta Umiker, but had to relocate because of World War II. There where a lot of huge events that happened in his life time such as The Spanish American War, southern state passed laws to not franchise blacks, the wright brothers had their first flight and McKinley was assassinated.  
     M.C. Escher worked with wood engravings, drawing, sketches and more different mediums. He was associated with Modern Art. His most famous works are Relativity, Waterfall, and Drawing Hands but personally my all time favorite is Stars which is two chameleons in a polyhedral cage with starts in the background. I was just really drawn to it, another one I really liked was called Hands with reflecting sphere the title describes it but its really cool. 
 1. Waterfall and 2. is Relativity