#escher sphere

[brooklynbutterflyarts]

MC Escher 3 Spheres Print MC Escher 3 glass spheres or Custom Framed Print Escher worked primarily in the media of lithographs and woodcuts, although the few mezzotints he made are considered to be masterpieces of the technique. In his graphic art, he portrayed mathematical relationships among shapes, figures, and space. Framed Size: various sizes Molding:Professional 1" Flat Top Black (solid-wood) 1.5 inch mat. (Various Color Combinations Available). Includes glass and metal wire for hanging on your wall. Print: Bonded & Dry-mounted Print on Foam Core. Perfectly flat and smooth finish High Resolution and Quality Full Color Print The double mat adds depth giving the display a unique "looking through a window'' appearance. The calendar print is bonded to foam core on a hot vacuum press. This bonding gives the print a perfect flat and smooth texture. This process also insures the print will never fold or fade with age or moisture. This wonderful display makes a thoughtful and original gift containing a classic vintage touch yet modern design, allowing it to fit alongside both modern and classic decor. BUY WITH CONFIDENCE. ALL OF MY DELICATE ITEMS ARE SHIPPED WITH A SPECIAL 3 LAYER PROTECTION SYSTEM.

[vortexanomaly]

MC Vader bustin rhymes...

[arinewman7]

Sphere Angels And Devils Tessellation

M.C. Escher

[emptyheadgamer]

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: this #ANSIart take on #MCEscher's 1935 lithograph #HandWithReflectingSphere (or #SelfPortraitInSphericalMirror) was drawn by @axbmusic. Slow but steady, he kept drawing underground computer artworks inspired by works of fine art over the four years since our last artpack on the subject, gradually motivating us to curate another one, culminating in the new MIST0424 collection.

[scottguy]

Clever.

(via Facebook)

[cleradinhive]

I need to talk about mikes room

The poster above Mike’s bed is a WIZARD summoning a beast (a giant buff beast but hey) and I just think that’s interesting. Not to mention the similarities to Will’s painting

The facial structure is so similar and the wings and the claws…

Mike also has a poster for Conan the Barbarian which, as we know, features another buff guy. But I also think it’s interesting that Conan combines both sorcery (cleric) and sword (paladin) into his heroism.

His room features 2 pieces of Escher’s artwork in his room. Both of these drawings (Hand with Reflecting Sphere (1935) and Relativity (1953)) involve perspective and how our reality is often different than what we believe.

I don’t really know what point I’m trying to make here, but I think it’s peculiar to place these in Mike’s room, given that we know how much he cares about what others think of him. This could mean that he’s too wrapped up in himself and what’s in his head to notice the truth that’s in front of him.

His obsession with Hellfire, popularity, being the perfect boyfriend, and his “fake” California outfit only supports the fact that Mike’s head is probably a labyrinth of confusion, but he outwardly displays that everything is fine.

All of this paired with the “one way” sign pointing to the closet doesn’t really help his case

Might add onto this later, but I haven’t seen anyone discuss the last few drawings so I thought I’d share. Lots to think about

[disease]

"THREE SPHERES: I" M.C. ESCHER // 1945 [wood engraving on paper | 278 x 168 mm.]

[oncanvas]

Three Spheres II, M. C. Escher, 1946

Lithograph on paper 26 x 46.5 cm (10 ¼ x 18 ¼ in.)

[sillypelagicredcrab]

we fucking killed them they are dead

strahd’s bitches

[topcat77]

Maurits Cornelis Escher

Three Spheres I (B. 336), 1945

Wood engraving, on laid Japanese paper, with full margins.

[brooklynbutterflyarts]

M.C. Escher Still Life Bird Spherical Mirror Finest Quality Print Dry Mounted For a Perfect Finish Molding:Professional 1" Flat Top Black (Solid-Maple Wood) Includes glass & Metal Hooks installed ready for your wall Print: Bonded & Dry-mounted Print on Foam Core. Perfectly flat and smooth finish Maurits Cornelis Escher was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. Despite wide popular interest, Escher was for most of his life neglected in the art world, even in his native Netherlands. He was 70 before a retrospective exhibition was held. Wikipedia Born: June 17, 1898, Leeuwarden, Netherlands Died: March 27, 1972, Hilversum, Netherlands The art poster is printed on high quality card-stock mat paper The framing adds depth, giving the display a unique "looking through a window'' appearance. The print is bonded to foam core on a hot vacuum press. This bonding gives the print a perfect flat and smooth texture. This process also insures the print will never fold or fade with age or moisture. This wonderful display makes a thoughtful and original gift containing a classic vintage touch yet modern design, allowing it to fit alongside both modern and classic decor.

[silverliing]

Mike’s wall art

I love seeing analysis about ST set design because it really spells out so much of the story without verbally telling you, and ive seen much discussion abt the details of mike’s room in s4 (that one way sign haunts me btw). buuut there are two pieces of visible wall art that I don’t really see get talked about on here (that i’ve read) and I just have a few things to say about them and what i think they might be telling us about Mike’s character and upcoming journey (hint: going into the UD)(hint: making plans and leading the party)(hint: byler)

so idk if this has been pointed out or if it’s common knowledge atp but the two pieces circled above are lithographs by artist MC Escher; Hand with Reflective Sphere (left)

and Relativity (right)

(a lil hard to see in this screenshot i’m sorry😢)

The artwork is beautiful as you can see (canon Mike Wheeler has great taste in art). Escher was most known for his intricate “impossible constructions” which are optical illusions of paradoxical space, he was also the inventor of the impossible cube:

this is some pretty cool nerdy, mathy stuff that I’d expect mike would be into, but looking at it from the context of his character and the direction of where the story is headed, there were 3 immediate possible readings that popped into my head which point toward 3 different (yet coexisting) directions:

He likes the art — It’s true, this art taps into Mike’s interests. Valid but boring. zzzz. snooze. You could argue that these posters should be taken at face value, but I just feel like in a show like ST —where the main cast knows of and is in various ways affected by an evil alternate dimension— having a character with wall art that references perspective/dimensional anomalies doesn’t really tell us much about his specific character or story. We’ve known that the ST set designers use a character’s space to show us who they are as people, these two artworks need to tell us something about Mike and his journey. And maybe Mike’s sensibilities about the world at large are shifting into nihilism with everything that’s happened in hawkins and the art reflects an absurdist outlook of future (teenage stuff, growing up, etc. etc.)

It foreshadows Mike’s s5 arc — I love this one. Mike is one of the few in the main cast who haven’t been in the upside down proper, so this art could reference not only that he’ll go into the UD in s5 but also that there could be dimensional anomalies involved in his travel or journey there. Perhaps this is how they’ll be able to find Max— by bending the laws of physics and using the mechanics of dimensional travel against itself, perhaps to open new doors or travel in different directions (hint: time travel 😏). And i think the reason this art is in Mike’s wall is bc it will be Mike who formulates the plan to find Max and retrieve her with the help of El and Will’s new powers 😏 (g*d knows i want to see leader Mike make a come back)(and Will with powers).

Will Byers — we know Mike and Will are tied together by the narrative and so I think these artworks could be directly pointing to Will with big red arrows. This point is corroborated by simply analyzing the formal qualities of the artwork, both individually and as a set. Hand with Reflective Sphere is about optics and perspective, about seeing, but also about the flattening of space. Relativity is about space, dimension, and paradox, but also about impossible perspective/vantage point. When read together the objective reading of them is about sight and space and paradox, about how the flattening of space helps us see something new and impossible. While Mike hasn’t experienced the dimensional travel into the UD proper, many of those closest to him atp had; El, Will, Nancy… but the reason i think these two posters remind him of Will specifically is because out of everyone else who has been in the UD, only Will experiences the feeling of being stuck there and of seeing into both dimensions at once; the stuck view-master, true sight. Mike associates these things combined (dimensional travel and dimensional sight/perception) with Will.

Also, Mike is a nerdy guy, he seems interested in this kind of stuff for the fun of it so he could’ve had sciency charts that reference the subject of visible light and paradoxes the way Suzie does, but instead he has not one but two fine-art pieces by a pretty big graphic artist that reference the subject of sight and space. Also, Idk what it is about the fact that it’s fine-art and not movie/game/dnd art that makes me also associate it with Will— the self-proclaimed visual artist of the show. The words are all jumbled up in my head rn but; artist. sight. all-encompassing. dimension. paradox. new perspective. -> -> -> -> Will Byers (is this a hint to wills powers??) etc. etc. etc. you get it

Secret 4th option (ties into #2)

Mike gets Vecnaed and this forces him into extensive self-reflection and the labyrinthian trials of finding himself and mastering his fears(maybe he’s already begun his self-searching and that’s why we see this art at the beginning of s4). cue cool musical montage of Mike navigating his own memories and mind-scape to find the answer that will make everything make sense while also hiding from vecna and buying the party time to find a way to end him.

[talonabraxas]

Hand With Reflecting Sphere 'M.C. Escher' Art by Sumapano

[pinkblanc]

M.C. Escher, Hand with a Reflecting Sphere, 1935

[mymentalvice]

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. Victor Frankl: Mans Search for Meaning.

Hand with Reflecting Sphere, also known as Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror, is a lithograph by Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in January 1935.