GilmartinM.C. Escher and Salvador Dahlia Maurits Cornelis Escher and was born on June the 17th, 1898 in Leeuwarden Netherlands. Escher was not encouraged to be an artist at a young age. He was encouraged to learn carpentry and other craft skills by his father. At school, he was an average student generally, but showed obvious artistic talent early in his schooling. Escher’s was fascinated by the art of structure and this is shown in a lot of his work. His early work however, tended towards realistic portrayals of the landscape and architecture observed during his travels. When Escher visited the Alhambra, in Granada, he was fascinated by the Moorish ornamentation’s that filled the entire space on walls. This lay the foundation of his work after 1937, of which he had produced some of his most famous work. These works involve repeated patterns and regular divisions of the plane, impossible constructions, and infinite space. His work from then and until his death in 1972 was driven by his unique understanding of mathematical concepts (http://wwwmcescher.com/html). Escher was thus able to bring art and science together Clinton J. HouseEnglish 1201Prof. GilmartinSalvador Felipe Jacinto Dal I Domenech was born May 11, 1904 in the small town agricultural town of Figueres, Spain. The son of a prosperous notary, Dal spent his boyhood in Figueres and at the family's summer home in the coastal fishing village of Cadaques where his parents built his first studio. As an adult, he made his home with his wife Gala in nearby Port Lligat. Many of his paintings reflect his love of this area of Spain. As an artist, Salvador Dal was not limited to a particular style or media. The body of his work, from early impressionist paintings through his transitional surrealist works, and into his classical period, reveals a constantly growing and evolving artist. (http://www.daliweb.org/bio.html) Dal worked in all media, leaving behind a we...
