Götz Kluge's photos with the keyword: M.C. Escher

[top left]: Detail of an illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876) [top right]: Mirror view of a horizontally compressed detail from John Martin's "The Bard" (ca. 1817, see red and green marks below) [bottom left]: M.C. Escher: Cimino Barbarano, 1929 (middle segment, redrawn from original, horizontally compressed) See also: www.mcescher.com/Gallery/ital-bmp/LW129.jpg [bottom right]: John Martin: The Bard ca. 1817 (Color desaturated segment) Original painting: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1671616 M. C. Escher took the whole concept of John Martin's The Bard . Henry Holiday in most cases quoted different elements (shapes) in his source images and often gave those elements a completely new meaning. (In one case the shapes even were the cracks in the varnish of a source image.) === John Martin: The Bard === Yale Center for British Art: "Based on a Thomas Gray poem, inspired by a Welsh tradition that said that Edward I had put to death any bards he found, to extinguish Welsh culture; the poem depicts the escape of a single bard. Escher turned that landscape into am Italian scenery." In mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/the-bard-by-john-martin , "Jonathan" connects the painting to the poem The Bard written by by Thomas Gray in 1755: · · ... · · On a rock, whose haughty brow · · Frowns o'er cold Conway's foaming flood, · · Robed in the sable garb of woe · · With haggard eyes the Poet stood; · · ... · · "Enough for me: with joy I see · · The diff'rent doom our fates assign. · · Be thine Despair and sceptred Care; · · To triumph and to die are mine." · · He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height · · Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night. · · ... The poem and the painting may have been an inspiration to Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday in The Hunting of the Snark: · · 545 · · Erect and sublime, for one moment of time. · · 546· · · · In the next, that wild figure they saw · · 547· · (As if stung by a spasm) plunge into a chasm, · · 548· · · · While they waited and listened in awe.