Reptiles is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in March 1943. It touches on the theme found in much of his work of mathematics in art.
Work
Reptiles depicts a desk upon which is a two-dimensional drawing of a tessellated pattern of reptiles and hexagons, Escher's 1939 Regular Division of the Plane.
In popular culture
A colorized version of the lithograph was used by the rock band Mott the Hoople as the sleeve artwork for its eponymous first album, released in 1969.
Music
In 1993, Graham Waterhouse composed a piano trio, Four Epigraphs after Escher, in four movements, with the final one based on Reptiles.
References
Sources
External links
- Decoration with Escher Lizard by William Chow.