The Man, The Genius, The Mathematician, The Immortal: M.C. Escher "In my prints I try to show that we live in a beautiful and orderly world and not in a chaos without norms... I cannot help mocking our unwavering certainties... to confuse two and three dimensions, the plane and space or to poke fun at gravity (Locher 124)." These words were spoken by an artisan who overcame the struggles of a misdirected youth. This very …showed first 75 words of 2406 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2406 total…hall in the museum. Over three hundred seats were <Tab/> 9 filled and over three hundred guests waited outside, hoping to get a glimpse of his work. In March of 1971, Escher stopped printing and drawing. "We brushed away a tear: the good old printer and I may meet again in the hereafter (Locher132)." A year later he died at the age of seventy-three. His masterpieces live on, continuing to tell his tale.