Escher in het Paleis

The Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher, 1898-1972, is a past master at drawing impossible situations. Only when you take a closer look do you realise that what he has drawn couldn’t possibly exist. Water flows uphill, birds metamorphose into fish and figures walk endlessly up and down the staircase in the same courtyard. In “Another World” you look into space while simultaneously viewing the craters on the lunar surface from above and from the side. In other drawings small reptiles crawl out of the frame across objects on a table and back onto the sheet of paper.

Source: Escher Museum