IMPROBABILITIES

I've always had a deep fascination with and a high regard for the extraordinary art of M C Escher, famous for creating amazing graphic designs especially of structural impossibilities...


Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) lived and worked in the Netherlands, and created his first 'impossible reality' in 1937 with the woodcut print, Still Life and Street...


Escher's exercises in playing with perspectives and perceptions have delighted generations the world over and have even inspired enthusiasts to recreate his implausible buildings in LEGO...

Now, I've discovered the work of Erik Johansson from Göteborg, Sweden, who - with manipulated photographic imagery - is creating similarly perplexing visual paradoxes.

Here are a few comparable puzzles from these two artists and you can click on any image to enlarge...











Images: M C Escher and Erik Johansson

Thanks to Irascian for the link to Johansson's work.