Gravitation (also known as
Gravity) is a
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work by the
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artist
M. C. EscherMaurits Cornelis Escher , usually referred to as M.C. Escher , was a Dutch-Frisian graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints...
which was completed in June, 1952. It was first printed as a black-and-white lithograph and then coloured by hand in watercolour.
It depicts a nonconvex regular polyhedron known as the
small stellated dodecahedronIn geometry, the small stellated dodecahedron is a Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron, with Schläfli symbol {5/2,5}. It is one of four nonconvex regular polyhedra. It is composed of 12 pentagrammic faces, with five pentagrams meeting at each vertex....
. Each facet of the figure has a
trapezoidIn geometry, a four-sided figure with one pair of parallel sides is referred to as trapezoid in American English and as a trapezium in British English. A trapezoid with vertices ABCD is denoted .-Definition and terminology:...
al doorway. Out of these doorways protrude the heads and legs of twelve turtles without shells, who are using the object as a common shell.
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Gravitation (also known as
Gravity) is a
mixed mediaMixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.There is an important distinction between "mixed-media" artworks and "multimedia art". Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct...
work by the
DutchThe Netherlands is a country in Northwestern Europe, constituting the major portion of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east...
artist
M. C. EscherMaurits Cornelis Escher , usually referred to as M.C. Escher , was a Dutch-Frisian graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints...
which was completed in June, 1952. It was first printed as a black-and-white lithograph and then coloured by hand in watercolour.
It depicts a nonconvex regular polyhedron known as the
small stellated dodecahedronIn geometry, the small stellated dodecahedron is a Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron, with Schläfli symbol {5/2,5}. It is one of four nonconvex regular polyhedra. It is composed of 12 pentagrammic faces, with five pentagrams meeting at each vertex....
. Each facet of the figure has a
trapezoidIn geometry, a four-sided figure with one pair of parallel sides is referred to as trapezoid in American English and as a trapezium in British English. A trapezoid with vertices ABCD is denoted .-Definition and terminology:...
al doorway. Out of these doorways protrude the heads and legs of twelve turtles without shells, who are using the object as a common shell. The turtles are in six coloured pairs (red, orange, yellow, magenta, brown and indigo) with each turtle directly opposite its counterpart.
Sources
- Locher, J.L. (2000). The Magic of M. C. Escher. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN 0-8109-6720-0.