Went to an art exhibition of M.C. Escher

I went to an art exhibition featuring Maurits Cornelis Escher or M.C. Escher today with my mother.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher

To me his work is quite surreal and can easily work as a wallpaper design, yet, it was made as a work of art. His paintings extremely popular, popping up in restuarants, schools, and musuems. Yet, he was elusive about who he was and it took a while for the art world to appreciate his work. His work got the attention of both mathmaticians and hippies like The Rolling Stones. M.C. Escher's work took him weeks to complete, weeks. I would've given up on the first day with that much demand for attention to detail.

Interestingly enough his work was considered so great he was asked to make 600 copies of certain paintings. He was so fed up he actually tried to charge more money for each copy in an attempt to drive demand down, this actually backfired as the more expensive it seemed to some people the more they wanted it.

His most complicated work in my opinion was Metamorphisis III. The picture in question is a very long portrait.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis_III

He is very good at twisting your perspective. Textbook example is Still Life and Street. It looks like a balcony view of a street at first until you realise the books are resting on the buildings and the balcony is also the street.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_Life_and_Street

While his last work before he died which was snakes is curious. At the time of this his family had left him and he was in really poor health.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_(M._C._Escher)

I find it even more interesting that he did the Tower of Babel. Its an illustration I've never seen before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel_(M._C._Escher).

I want people who read this to do some research onto M.C. Escher and tell me what you think.