30 April 2016

M. C. Escher -- Unsettling Left-Handed Art

Dutch artist M. C. Escher was left handed.

There are videos of him at work here and here.

His famous 1948 lithograph Drawing Hands shows a left hand drawing a right hand drawing a left hand.

M. C. Escher. Drawing Hands, 1948
Do you think Escher's creativity, and perhaps his obsessions, were related to his left-handedness?

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