Artists

The appeal of M.C. Escher's fantasy and paradoxical inventiveness is universal, yet mathematicians admire the strict principles underlying his manipulation of space, time and perspective.

His drawings are enjoyed for their whimsical humour, admired as works of art for their strength and intricacy, and studied for the insights and the challenges they offer to our notions of reality and representation.

Our primitive, prescientific language contains few words accurate enough to communicate the scary, awesome facts this artist Giger reveals.
Giger, you slice through my tissues into thin microscopic slides for the world to see.
Giger, you razor-shave sections of my brain and plaster them still pulsing across your canvas.
Giger, you are an alien lurking inside my body, laying your futique eggs of wonder.
You have wound silken threads of larval cocoon around you and tunnelled down deep into my wisdom gland.
Giger, you see more then we domesticated primates.

Piet Mondrian was one of the greatest painters and the leading abstract artist of the twentieth century. Observation of the world around him was crucial to the development of his art, which has long been considered wholly non-representational.

[The] tension between the brilliantly coloured patterns and bold compositions of the works on the one hand, and the representational subject matter underlying them on the other, generates an excitement and drama unique in modern art.