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First broadcast: Sep 2015.
Episode 18/18 World-leading cosmologist Professor Sir Roger Penrose is more than just a fan of MC Escher's mind-bending art. During the course of a long creative collaboration, the British mathematician and the Dutch artist exchanged ideas and inspirations. Some of Escher's most iconic images have their origin in Penrose's mathematical sketches - while the artist's work has served as a starting point for the professor's own explorations of new scientific ideas. To coincide with the first ever Escher retrospective in the UK, Penrose takes us on a personal journey through Escher's greatest masterpieces - marvelling at his intuitive brilliance and the penetrating light it still sheds on complex mathematical concepts.

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@rbaleksandar 6 лет назад

Escher was truly a genius. Your brain gets turned upside down every time you look at his abstract works.

@kamelaparis7489 Год назад

Literally and figuratively

@lmercan4809 5 лет назад

You can look at Escher's art and find something new each time!!! I saw these works awhile ago when they were on display in Washington, DC. My other favorite is Vermeer ...said to be an artist who also used maths in his work & again, always see something new each time it's viewed. Excellent video - thank you.😀

@wmgthilgen Год назад

It was my viewing of the various art by Escher, that caused me to learn how to think out side the box.

@TheUrantia001 Год назад

no pun intended..of course 🙂

@KenSmith-bv4si Год назад

His art work blew my mind.

@AdCreative-ik7dg 10 месяцев назад

Escher one of my fav ❤

@elijahclements8646 4 года назад

The way he say's "what might be possible" rather than "what is possible" really reflects his humility as a scientist, amplifies the idea that we really don't know anything and his language choice shares his humble demeanour despite being one of the great minds in recent history. This openness and awareness that he too knows nothing is probably what led him to his interest in Escher and massively benefited his work in one of the most important Art-Science collaborations ever. Without this humility it's hard to learn from other people, especially an intelligent and established scientist from a relatively unknown artist (at that time)

@Kazusuii Год назад

Chill

@Meine.Postma 8 месяцев назад

"What might be impossible"

@veronicaclarke7499 5 лет назад

My favourite artist!

@sharonjack7239 2 года назад

Very interesting video!! Thank you. USA

@kevincampbell1395 7 месяцев назад

Penrose is such a genius

@DemonetisedZone 26 дней назад

I do not buy idea of genius or Cult Of Personality in general in art, science or politics. Must we repeat same simplistic stories about Darwin and Einstein? These guys were of their time and if Darwin didn't do it someone else probably would have, same for Einstein, they were in scientific races to arrive at answers first rather than jumping out of proverbial bathtubs shouting "Eureka!" Eschers work is interesting but the idea of genius makes little appeal. People add to what is already there they do not come from outer space. Less about Newton under the tree more Galileo with his Dutch Spyglass

@aorta538 3 года назад

My favorite top 3 dutch artists... -M.C. Escher -V. van Gogh -P. Mondriaan

@CEverly Год назад

I was wondering who your favs were. Thanks

@jimvandemoter6961 Год назад

I never thought of Escher's works in mathematical terms. I'm not a mathematician. The big question was, for me, what kind of mind could even conceive of such ideas? His works still, after decades, fascinate me.

@gostaknochenhauer3978 Год назад

I have always loved Escher's works. Unfortunately, I don't own any of his prints, but I do have a book of his fantastic pictures. This is a wonderful exposé, but the loud and quite unnecessary music overlay should be removed. For some reason, the story ended in the middle of a sentnce. Is there a continuation somwehere?

@scatdog1 Год назад

This would have been great if you would have given people more than three seconds to visualize his work.

@patricetan 7 лет назад

Thank you so much for posting this

@TheRealMACA Год назад

Subbed! Awesome channel, thx!

@vilkomen Год назад

Wish the would stop up a bit so the whole impossible shape would be in focus. Gives away the illusion if some of it is out of focus.

@jolieusher 3 года назад

THE LABYRINTH MOVIE

@JornSilverblade Год назад

10:44 These plants are actually oversized lichens 🙂

@truefiasco2637 4 года назад

anyone else like the http tessellation in the description? not sure if intentional or not but it's better then having a link to part 2.

@weeverob Год назад

There’s a great game that utilizes Escher’s logic called Monument Valley

@louisjohnson7441 7 лет назад

Genius

@1330m 2 года назад

so good . informative Escher and Penrose are soulmates . 1st century Israel = 21st century Korea . You have to know that . Amazing historical events are taking place there . Longitude 127 Seoul Okinawa Soul Axis -- Bahai Faith Rael Jesus Huh kyung young Magnificent aletheia .

@TheFlipped1 6 лет назад

O.o I just found your channel, subscribed right away!

@geoffreywilliams9324 Год назад

Truly an illusionist of the 2 dimensional world . .

@paulferguson1240 5 лет назад

Three Guitars - Escher Style. Photographic Print: www.redbubble.com/people/jamthetreble/works/39729584-three-guitars-escher-style?p=photographic-print&ref=similar_products

@Kanabuki 8 лет назад

thank you for all the info, quite helpful with reseach and etc. youre quite a useful channel!

@zorbanongreco 11 месяцев назад

quite

@berndthiel613 Год назад

, .................. seeing world through kaleidoskope

@redd_frogg9806 5 лет назад

I got a test on this so i decided to rewatch the video on my phone :> it was pretty interesting

@secretsofix 4 года назад

I got Homework on this and my teacher give us this link. Idk what Im watching TwT

@tash_kite 2 года назад

Wow so cool

@sparabildsom 8 лет назад

AMAZING!!!!!!!

@HerbaMachina 6 лет назад

14:03 no wonder he became obsessed it's a representation of the E8 lattice in quantum physics, just google E8 particles in charge space and look at like the 4th picture.

@lacyhart2043 4 года назад

I love Feynman's Dinos they were all over his van

@yodrewyt Год назад

Imagine being born into the Penrose family.

@mikensumu5182 2 года назад

in harry potter and doctor strange .U can see his work

@ximbabwe0228 5 лет назад

11:33 selfie

@samuellopes4628 Год назад

Here we see the prototype of the Dr Strange movie....

@petrofilmeurope Год назад

Babble and more babble. And ding dongs and babble. Have one ever heard about wonderful silence? One should try it. It speaks clearer than thousand words. Even from the words of a distinguished Professor. Thank you from Oslo.

@WorldPreSchool 5 лет назад

Asking much...deliver

@pearlgirl5643 3 года назад

Donnie Darko brought me here🐰

@josephkarl2061 6 лет назад

5:22 👍

@NurseArielPhysiotherapists Год назад

❤️🇵🇭

@its_a_ducky3467 8 лет назад

and I O_O. Sorry, I have a family of grammar and science and shool kinda geeks, so I'm OCD about that. :D

@jatigre1 Год назад

Yet, never able to simply rotate the Michelson Morley Interferometer vertically. A life of conformity.

@MorpheusOne 3 года назад

@Art Documentaries: Uploading this documentary in two videos was, and still is, a very dumb thing to do.

@DemonetisedZone 26 дней назад

I do not buy into idea of genius or Cult Of Personality in art, science or politics. Must we repeat same simplistic stories about Darwin and Einstein? These guys were of their time and if Darwin didn't do it someone else probably would have, same for Einstein, they were in scientific races to arrive at answers first rather than jumping out of proverbial bathtubs shouting "Eureka!" Eschers work is interesting but the idea of genius makes little appeal. People add to what is already there they do not come from outer space. Less about Newton under the tree more Galileo with his Dutch Spyglass

@FlorisVideoBase 6 лет назад

Haha paradogs 7:18

@bernardpopp541 6 лет назад

Very interestink... but CREEPY!

@ArcAngle111 6 лет назад

Bernard Popp but?

@hydorah Год назад

What an incredible story. Imagine being a person who inspired by Escher went off and made something that inspired Escher

@PADARM 3 месяца назад

In a totally recursive way that Escher loved so much

@_bluephoenix_ Год назад

What a priviledge and honour to have worked with such an amazing mind. Ive been so encaptured by Eschers work since I was a teen- looking at his work for hours. There is always so much tiny detail you dont notice at first. I cant imagine how a brain that comes up with these visual illusions, works - let alone be skilled enough to transfer that so skillfully! Thank you for such a wonderful video!

@GandhiShelly 3 года назад

Drawing hands on the back cover of mathematical analysis book is a good introduction to Escher, I just wish there was more of his work in school. To me the beauty is Escher is that he leads the mind to thoughts of integrated subject thinking, a place where most education is found lacking. Maths, arts biology, engineering have been created by humans. Escher's work helps us in understanding that they are all interconnected in ways that we sometimes can't express. Unless of course you are Escher then you can in each drawing.

@livinginthisgalaxy7961 3 года назад

Try making something yourself and introduce it in your school...

@khalil_art 3 года назад

Art is like a combination of science, philosophy and beauty.

@steveescher1554 Год назад

Agreed. I actually seen his work in almost all of my text books, other than history. No one but me knew who he was though.

@panographic 3 года назад

congratulations to Sir Roger Penrose for winning the 2020 Nobel prize in Physics

@adammurkin7496 5 лет назад

Well this is a delight. I clicked on this thinking I was going to watch an interesting documetary on Escher, instead I get that, plus it is one of the my favourite human beings discussing him. Wonderful.

@steveescher1554 Год назад

All of his descendants ended up with some sort of artistic ability and or geometric abilities. When growing up, I personally drew very similar looking building as he did, without ever seeing his work yet. My family and I seemed to have a natural understanding of perspective and drawing 3-D shapes as well. I def did not inherit his genius though haha Also, the non Escher side of the family could barely draw a stick figure.

@User0000000000000004 Год назад

ok, "steve"

@steveescher1554 Год назад

@@User0000000000000004 Why the strange comment? This video had a lot to do with how he had abilities in certain fields, despite never studying in those fields. So I was pointing out that genetic abilities are real and his ancestors actually picked up on some of those.

@عصامعيسىرجب 4 года назад

While I was reading "The Aleph and other Stories" by Jorge Luis Borges, it happened I looked at the front cover's painting "Other World” by M. C. Escher. I searched for the painting on the internet and here where I landed. Long live Reading, Curiosity & Knowledge.

@bazmalaza85 3 года назад

there are no so called "coincidences" in the Youniverse

@creativestudio101 Год назад

Long live Reading, Curiosity & Knowledge indeed.

@taran333tula 9 лет назад

Playlist : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f7kW8xd8p4s.html

@ThePolistiren 9 лет назад

+Art Documentaries Could've swore you were terminated. Welcome back!

@taran333tula 9 лет назад

+Turtoi Radu Luckily not yet (°V°) thanks !

@xtop23 Год назад

MC Escher is one of my 2 favorite artists of all time. The ability to MAKE you adjust your perception...... MAKE you enter his world..... is unprecedented. Utterly genius.

@jeffreyjefferson536 Год назад

And who's the other? I'm not into art (abstract, cubist or otherwise) much, but Dali immediately comes to mind. And Luis Borges - who in a sense wrote down what Escher drew.

@xtop23 Год назад

@@jeffreyjefferson536 You have excellent divination skills lol. Dali is top 5 for me certainly......... his watercolors he did for Dante are inexplicably ...... wonderfully ....wrought. Number 2 is Gustav Klimt ......"The Embrace"...... devastates me every time I look at it. If you ever have a chance to be in the same room...... properly lit....... with that utter mastery and vibrant majesty...... you will be moved. Number 3 although yes, it's an easy choice and smacks of a pedestrian understanding of art because of the ease with which you can attach to him.........., is Van Gogh. Specifically, "Sunflowers"....... although, "Wheat Field with Cypresses" also floors me.

@krishnamayimarianni8026 Год назад

Who is the other

@deborahguillory8431 Год назад

I recall his work on cover of Southwestern Bell telephone directory. Love his work

@SLB4523 Год назад

What is truly bewildering is that his works weren’t drawings but woodcut prints.

@armandogavilan1815 4 месяца назад

Yeah both things, the ideas/visions and the craft fo sure.

@Capochin950 Год назад

Excellent film . Very interesting.Very clever work making the “impossible “models.

@nicolasrichard3737 Год назад

Escher did not consider himself a artist.

@librem2013 6 лет назад

If anyone has ever played Legend of Gauntlet: Dark Legacy all the way through, you'll find many contemporary artists influenced the creation of the dark world, but mostly Esher. If I remember correctly, each of the some 7 different portals lead to a realm influenced almost entirely by Esher.

@chrisnewman7281 Год назад

The idea of force perspective is used a lot in lord of the rings movie where you have large characters and smaller characters and they have to coexist in the same room

@jayski9410 Год назад

Escher's work always reminded me of a paradox I ran into when first learning computer programming. That being that finite decimals we're all used to in the base 10 number system become infinitely repeating "decimals" in base 2 or the binary system that computers use. Leading to unexpected round-off errors especially when dealing with money. And these days I think back to Escher when trying to grasp higher dimensional spaces required by string theory or depictions of hyperbolic spaces.

@ARK842001 6 лет назад

Been studying the fourth dimension for years. This is incredibly helpful.

@evilseedsgrownaturally1588 5 лет назад

ARK842001 watching youtube videos does not equate to “study”.

@chompers11 4 года назад

@@evilseedsgrownaturally1588 lmao yes it does, clown

@EleanorPeterson Год назад

Delightful! I did find it necessary, though, to keep pausing, reversing, and rewatching the video in order to study each image more fully. It was only as it began to grow dark outside that I realised I'd been watching a 15 minute film for almost 90 minutes. I think everyone involved would appreciate how a 3-dimensional visual experience had been so effective in distorting my perception of the passage of time.😁

@natalya9821 Год назад

Hello. This story is with exciting twists. Thank you. Subscribed.

@jmalmsten 6 лет назад

Anyone know of a video showing how prints like these are made? I mean, not just drawings, but the process of the printing. Because, if it is that the artist needs to work in negatives so to speak or something like that, I would be very much fascinated with seeing the process from first marks on the canvas to the final print... :)

@shannonolivas9524 Год назад

I like these physical models of Escher's work, me I look at the original works and I say for instance on "Ascending" "oh, that's clever, he just ran this line on the right long here and took advantage of spacing and perspective in 2D art" or "oh, here in Relativity he's taking advantage of our architectural usage of 90 degree angles" In Waterfall he's using the same trick as in "Ascending", but these guys make it work in 3D space, really quite clever.

@David-xl9cp Год назад

Mind on a completely different level, I have had one of his art books for around 40 years, just amazing 🤩

@steviegaga Год назад

Extremely interesting and well done. I’ve been into MCE since the 1960’s and he is timeless

@alancharbonneau4108 Год назад

I never knew until this video that Penrose inspired “Ascending and Descending”, one of my favorites by Escher. 😁

@nicovanderwolk Год назад

Relativity actual can be built. I did it. It's about 20 x 20 x 20 cm.

@flyinghorseknuckles Год назад

I had no idea that Escher had been inspired by Penrose's works! That is apparent from my very naïve attempt at a documentary on Escher that I had made in college ages ago when I was 25. If you are curious, you can view it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x9oV3nDvoio.html

@bensnide5846 Год назад

I love it I love it I absolutely love it. Conversations and ideas like this, I could just listen to these guys talk and watch them doodle infinitely

@mihai1853 6 лет назад

4:55 when i hear geometrically impossible.. i was tinking about this shape before he drew it

@evilseedsgrownaturally1588 5 лет назад

Mihai ...You, and everyone else.

@oliverhardman3513 4 года назад

I came up with the idea of bottled water too

@tacticaltwinkies3847 3 года назад

google drive

@Dumptheclutchevo Год назад

imagine being the inspiration for some of the greatest pieces of artwork in the world mind-boggling!

@TheUrantia001 Год назад

he is only a conduit..the art is working through him...

@mysticwine Год назад

Big Bang is the answer they use when they have no answer...

@brian5154 Год назад

...we pass his house in Arnhem very often....

@photobobo Год назад

Why does this video end abruptly?

@rooseveltdogboe5374 2 года назад

HGS

@verioffkin 9 лет назад

Simply beautiful.

@NotGalactic_MCYT 6 месяцев назад

who else was forced by an art teacher

@DrMerle-gw4wj Год назад

Leave it to BBC to create an annoying video about an otherwise interesting subject.

@TheUrantia001 Год назад

you will like my new comments above...

@pnutdraws 5 лет назад

05:23 they probably shot that with a lower f stop so the the depth of field is so low that the wood thing behind is more blurry than the one in the front which kinda breaks the illusion , still very cool

@marcussparticus8380 Год назад

Informative but ends to soon, what happened to the rest of the documentary.

@RichardLaurence Год назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1CYrGpd8k5w.html

@1N2themystic Год назад

I love watching a documentary that really catches my attention and inspires me to wonder if I have any creativity in my heart, and right about the time they start getting into the best part of the

@M.C.Escher2018 6 лет назад

Do Black Holes recyle space time and debis? Could it be possible that black holes indirectly explain an expanding universe? Was there ever a "Big bang"?

@evilseedsgrownaturally1588 5 лет назад

M.C. Escher That’s really deep, bro.

@MichelleAckerStudios 6 лет назад

keep the great videos coming! awesome

@jennief2108 5 лет назад

Superb work as always, thank you ) Jennie

@jamieyoho2310 5 лет назад

How many stairs are they gonna make that poor dude walk up?

@narang99 8 лет назад

Thank you for creating your channel, it's a great useful resource and education. Your time and effort to put this out is greatly appreciated.

@taran333tula 8 лет назад

+Gautam Narang ...Thank YOU for your appreciation !

@63artemisia63 4 года назад

The plants you mention that are unlike any you’ve ever seen are actually marine animals - corals, as in coral reefs!

@johannelavergne9973 Год назад

Appropriating the Word of our Lord God for yourself will not save you my friends, Your little brains of locust doesn’t come near our Fathers Truths Truth is absolute Relativity well it’s relative, who’s right? May our Father in Heaven have mercy on Humanity

@Pakunin61 Год назад

No hay duda de que estamos ante la obra de un genio. Todas sus creaciones son maravillosas.

@justaguy-69 Год назад

i love escher , have many (most) of his prints in reproductions and i'm 80% done building my retirement home in the philippines inspired by him and frank lloyd wright out of concrete. i've never built a house before but spent years doing it in my imagination while driving my 18 wheeler over the road as a truck driver. i kind of overdid it strength wise as far as rebar and concrete composition , but not being a structural engineer i wanted to 'cover my butt' in this regard 😃🤣i plan to laminate and frame all my escher works and hang them throughout my home to enjoy as i grow older.

@salkinfamilychiropractic3142 4 года назад

Anybody play "Monument Valley"? love this artists' work and those Penrose stairs!

@johnupper5225 4 месяца назад

Thank you for this doc. It would have been better if the cameraperson had not been stuck on shallow depth of field, which is pretty, but destroys the depth illusions.

@268gam 6 лет назад

Great documentary

@dalethomasdewitt Год назад

Stairs are in the wrong place end up in the right place. Water that should be going uphill is in fact falling. Demons reflect your hidden angelic side.