While there, Space Ghost tried ( and failed ) to show he was " hip " to rap, saying his favorite rapper was M. C. Escher.

17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972 ), usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist.

He was the youngest son of civil engineer George Arnold Escher and his second wife, Sara Gleichman.

The young couple settled down in Rome where their first son, Giorgio ( George ) Arnaldo Escher, named after his grandfather, was born.

Escher, who had been very fond of and inspired by the landscapes in Italy, was decidedly unhappy in Switzerland, and in 1937, the family moved again, to Uccle, a suburb of Brussels, Belgium.

Although Escher did not have mathematical training — his understanding of mathematics was largely visual and intuitive — Escher's work had a strong mathematical component, and more than a few of the worlds which he drew are built around impossible objects such as the Necker cube and the Penrose triangle.

Escher was awarded the Knighthood of the Order of Orange Nassau in 1955.

Escher printed Metamorphosis I in 1937, which was a beginning part of a series of designs that told a story through the use of pictures.

A planned series of lectures in North America in 1962 was cancelled due to an illness, but the illustrations and text for the lectures, written out in full by Escher, were later published as part of the book Escher on Escher.

Escher " in the United States was opposed, but the Dutch company prevailed in the courts on the grounds that an artist or his heirs have a right to trademark his name.

* Asteroid 4444 Escher was named in Escher's honor in 1985.

The name " quine " was coined by Douglas Hofstadter, in his popular science book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, in the honor of philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine ( 1908 – 2000 ), who made an extensive study of indirect self-reference, and in particular for the following paradox-producing expression, known as Quine's paradox:

The concept of a strange loop was proposed and extensively discussed by Douglas Hofstadter in Gödel, Escher, Bach, and is further elaborated in Hofstadter's book I Am a Strange Loop, published in 2007.

* Graphic artist M. C. Escher moved to Arnhem when he was five and spent most of his youth there.

Lake Zurich is formed by the river Linth, which, rising in the glaciers of the Tödi Range in Glarus, which was diverted by the Escher canal ( completed in 1811 ) into the Lake Walen, there by means of the Linth canal ( completed in 1816 ), its waters are carried to the east end of the Lake of Zurich.

Josef Escher ( 17 September 1885-9 December 1954 ) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council ( 1950-1954 ).

That same year, the Eames Foundation hired Los Angeles architectural firm Escher GuneWardena to develop a plan for the house, one that would restore and preserve the house as it was in 1988.

Another theory asserts the name was chosen based on the frequency of English alphabet letters due in part to the then current popularity of Douglas Hofstadter's 1980 book Gödel, Escher, Bach which used ETAOIN, etc., to capitalize on popularity and current hip-ness.

Tessellations frequently appeared in the art of M. C. Escher, who was inspired by studying the Moorish use of symmetry in the Alhambra tiles during a visit in 1922.

At an Escher conference in Rome in 1985, Roger Penrose said that he had been greatly inspired by Escher's work when he and his father discovered both the tri-bar structure and the continuous steps, although Escher, in the 1950s, had not yet drawn any impossible figures and was not aware of their existence.

While the Penroses credited Escher in their article, Escher himself noted in a letter to his son in January 1960 that he was:

This process prompted irate investors to heap criticism on Alfred Escher, even though he had already resigned from his position as chairman of the Northeastern Railway board in 1871.

In 1959, Flocon had acquired a copy of Grafiek en tekeningen by M. C. Escher who strongly impressed him with his use of bent and curved perspective, which influenced the theory Flocon and Barre were developing.

Once a woman telephoned Escher and told him that she thought the image was a “ striking illustration of reincarnation ”.

In 1845 and 1846 Escher took part in the Federal Council of Cantonal Representatives ( Tagsatzung ) in Zurich as Third Envoy, which brought him into contact with Switzerland ’ s leading politicians.

In 1871 the Gotthardbahn-Gesellschaft ( Gotthard Railway Company ) was established, with Escher as its chairman.

Thanks to his numerous political posts and his significant role in the foundation and management of the Swiss Northeastern Railway, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Credit Suisse, Swiss Life and the Gotthard Railway, Escher had an unmatched influence on Switzerland ’ s political and economic development in the 19th century.

Even the financial difficulties involved in the Gotthard project were blamed on Escher by various parties.

During the critical phase of the Gotthard Tunnel construction in the mid-1870s Escher nearly worked himself to death.

Alfred Escher initially favoured a trans-Alpine link via the Lukmanier, he changed his mind and became an advocate of the Gotthard project.

Escher Company B. V. of Baarn, Netherlands, which licenses use of the copyrights on all of Escher's art and on his spoken and written text, and also controls the trademarks.

Escher was hired by the Japanese government as a foreign advisor from September 1873 to July 1878, along with fellow Dutch civil engineers Johannis de Rijke and Cornelis Johannes van Doorn.

Within philosophy familiar names include Daniel Dennett who writes from a computational systems perspective, John Searle known for his controversial Chinese room, Jerry Fodor who advocates functionalism, and Douglas Hofstadter, famous for writing Gödel, Escher, Bach, which questions the nature of words and thought.

* Notable draftsmen of the 20th century include Käthe Kollwitz, Max Beckmann, Jean Dubuffet, Egon Schiele, Arshile Gorky, Paul Klee, Oscar Kokoschka, Alphonse Mucha, M. C. Escher, André Masson, Jules Pascin, and Pablo Picasso.

He is best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979.

Hofstadter's thesis about consciousness, first expressed in Gödel, Escher, Bach ( GEB ) but also present in several of his later books, is that it is an emergent consequence of seething lower-level activity in the brain.

* Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali & the Artists of Optical Illusion 2004 by Al Seckel.

Typical of these references is Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, which accords the paradox a prominent place in a discussion of self-reference.

* 1898 – M. C. Escher, Dutch artist ( d. 1972 )

The art critic Vittorio Sgarbi, however, has compared Tonato's worked to those of Maurits Cornelis Escher.

M. C. Escher is considered a master of lithography, and many of his prints were created using this process.

In 1919, Escher attended the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts.

In 1922 Escher left the school, having gained experience in drawing and making woodcuts.

In Italy Escher met Jetta Umiker, whom he married in 1924.