Gravitation_(M._C._Escher)

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Gravitation (M. C. Escher)

Mixed media work by M.C. Escher


Gravitation (also known as Gravity) is a mixed media work by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher completed in June 1952. It was first printed as a black-and-white lithograph and then coloured by hand in watercolour.

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It depicts a nonconvex regular polyhedron known as the small stellated dodecahedron.[1] Each facet of the figure has a trapezoidal doorway. Out of these doorways protrude the heads and legs of twelve turtles without shells, who are using the object as a common shell. The turtles are in six coloured pairs (red, orange, yellow, magenta, green and indigo) with each turtle directly opposite its counterpart.

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References

  1. Barnes, John (2012). Gems of Geometry (2nd ed.). Springer. p. 46.

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