M.C. Escher Documentary (by CINEMEDIA-NPS-RNTV) [1999]

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  • Опубликовано: 21 фев 2013
  • This is a fantastic documentary about M.C. Escher' life produced by CINEMEDIA in co-production with Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS) and Radio Netherlands Television (RNTV) in 1999. [ All M.C. Escher works are copyrighted by Cordon Art B.V., Baarn, the Netherlands, and The M.C. Escher Company, B.V. All Rights Reserved - Official website: www.mcescher.com/ ].
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  • @zovalentine7305
    @zovalentine7305 Год назад +2

    Learned about him studying architecture in High School; fascinated ever since ❤

  • @adrienperie6119
    @adrienperie6119 10 лет назад +26

    Once again the beautiful potential of RUclips is demonstrated by an awesome upload. Congratulations sir, you brightened five thousand people's day, thank you.

  • @MiaFeigelsonGallery
    @MiaFeigelsonGallery 9 лет назад +79

    I can't find the words to thank you enough for having uploaded this Documentary to RUclips, it's undoubtedly one of the best Art Documentaries I've ever watched !!!

    • @joeegbert9808
      @joeegbert9808 8 лет назад +5

      +Mia Feigelson
      try typing into GOOG search bar " Anamorphic by MC Escher , you should enjoy it .
      Joe

    • @SNROPQUEYR
      @SNROPQUEYR 5 лет назад +4

      Maurits Escher was above genius - Could you imagine if he took architecture as his career - Steps going up - at the same time - going down - Emerging inside out & outside in - Eventually twisting upside down - Finally taking shape - Downside Up -

    • @wiffleone
      @wiffleone 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/MZQnCiUqQ3Y/видео.html
      This is pretty good too.

    • @kraiglarson3144
      @kraiglarson3144 2 года назад

      Is Kove to cosit rhat jouee ot rent it hmm HELLO hmm???

    • @MiaFeigelsonGallery
      @MiaFeigelsonGallery 2 года назад

      Joe, I've just read your suggestion, I'll certainly do so , thank you so very much !!!

  • @xSCHEF
    @xSCHEF 9 лет назад +148

    the 5 people disliking this video are still trapped in the Esher staircase :(

    • @fyka2902
      @fyka2902 7 лет назад +4

      22 are now stuck in Escher's portrayal of hell.

    • @mariaceciliawolfcruz3239
      @mariaceciliawolfcruz3239 6 лет назад +8

      These dislikes could have been done by mistake, they are forgivable.

    • @aryehfinklestein9041
      @aryehfinklestein9041 6 лет назад +2

      good one

    • @paultorbert6929
      @paultorbert6929 5 лет назад +1

      maybe they disliked the adverts that are so obtrusive and loud.......

    • @marshsherrif2824
      @marshsherrif2824 5 лет назад +1

      i am trapped on that staircase with Spike Milligan. its 4 o'clock

  • @Visualimpactsystems
    @Visualimpactsystems  9 лет назад +43

    They definitely did a great job putting this documentary about M.C. Escher together.

  • @Visualimpactsystems
    @Visualimpactsystems  10 лет назад +22

    A creative genius that 'transformed' art-definitely ahead of his time!

    • @mr.evasion
      @mr.evasion 5 лет назад

      No. MCE ok. Most people living in the past.

    • @mr.evasion
      @mr.evasion 5 лет назад +1

      All great souls show us the world for what it is...
      And it takes guts to stand and stair......

  • @goyensjonathandjalmoztfr33
    @goyensjonathandjalmoztfr33 2 года назад +7

    In my opinion He was not only a great artist he was prophetic .

  • @wimaardewerk
    @wimaardewerk 6 лет назад +19

    Very pleasant professional voice-over by Tony Wilkinson

  • @michaelahnotlob-iksrepok6572
    @michaelahnotlob-iksrepok6572 6 лет назад +8

    Oh man. What an amazing man he was. Thank you for sharing this amazing documentary.

  • @Karloffrules
    @Karloffrules 8 лет назад +8

    A singular perspective. Thank you uploader, a thank you so, Mr. Escher. Breathtaking.

  • @winstonfosdick9887
    @winstonfosdick9887 10 лет назад +5

    Been a fan since the early 70's... Thanks !!!

  • @googleinc6033
    @googleinc6033 4 года назад +6

    This makes me feel so much better about myself, he kept drawing and drawing even tho he didn't have a job and he didn't care about society's pressures and just followed his instinct, he never gave up and eventually became a master at his medium which allowed him to focus on ideas later on, the combination of his skill + passion for geometry and his hard work made his work masterpieces, but it took him a lifetime, he only started to get recognition towards the end of his life. I just feel bad for the lack of sensitivity towards his depressed wife, probably caused by the lack of vitamin D which is common in the Netherlands and possibly menopause plus complete lack of attention from him...

  • @bigoli2001
    @bigoli2001 8 лет назад +9

    Been a fan since I was a child. Always thought there was a sadness to his work. This documentary shed light on that.

    • @mr.evasion
      @mr.evasion 5 лет назад +1

      Agreed.
      Dream/Reality
      The Artist asks of YOU where to draw the line

    • @wonderbars36
      @wonderbars36 Год назад

      His early ones really showed that. Big time isolation-related depression in some of those. The smoking skull with top hat is still up there for me, along with the clouds in that landscape one.

  • @daigreatcoat44
    @daigreatcoat44 3 года назад +3

    This is a great documentary, which I've only just stumbled across by chance. I've always loved Escher's work, and it's good to see him treated so sympathetically. I also enjoyed the surreal subtitles -particularly bizarre while Escher is speaking in Dutch. I intend to transcribe these, and in the process invent an entirely new kind of poetry. What a deaf person would make of the film doesn't bear thinking about. Thank you very much for making the film available.

  • @paulettemackenzie-dubuc6927
    @paulettemackenzie-dubuc6927 4 года назад +1

    I am amazed at the exquisite precision of his works, so clever and sometimes with a sense of humor. He's one of a kind!

  • @ArchitecturalAesthetics2046
    @ArchitecturalAesthetics2046 7 лет назад +15

    great documentary. Little details such as Escher's self-loathing notes regarding his cigarette smoking in his diaries lent this great artistic mind much humane touch.

  • @zovalentine7305
    @zovalentine7305 Год назад +1

    Rest in peace 🙏
    M.C. Escher
    17 June 1898 ~
    27 March 1972⚘

  • @ironpirites
    @ironpirites 9 лет назад +24

    Beautiful film. Escher said that it would be hard to say why he like the Italian landscape but to someone with more distance it seems obvious that the verticality of it, standing up like a canvas in front of one and displaying a collection of all kinds of contrasting textures and shapes, would have appealed to his sensibility, in contrast to the Dutch landscape, which is all flat.

    • @mr.evasion
      @mr.evasion 5 лет назад +1

      And very little of that boring snow

    • @DrWhom
      @DrWhom 3 года назад +1

      well there's the Beekse Bergen, surely these are mountains

    • @candidogalicia6502
      @candidogalicia6502 2 года назад

      Some countries have more respect for old architecture. Italy for example.

    • @hansolo2121
      @hansolo2121 10 месяцев назад

      @@candidogalicia6502 The Dutch have more respect for their native old architecture than almost any other country in the world. Cities like Amsterdam, Leiden and Haarlem are some of the best preserved 16th and 17th century cities in the entire world. Visit Haarlem and you are literally walking in a museum time capsule of a centuries old city that has been lovingly maintained for centuries by the local people. Escher as a Dutchman grew up with this Dutch mindset of looking at and respecting their architectural history.

  • @kellysartthrob
    @kellysartthrob 3 года назад

    Thank you for uploading this documentary. Enlightening.

  • @shariarnold9649
    @shariarnold9649 3 года назад

    This video was very well done...Escher has always intrigued me. What a genius...what an artist. I loved every minute of learning about this incredible artist. Thank you!

  • @SOLTYgty
    @SOLTYgty 8 лет назад +5

    How can things so intricate and accurate be carved from wood! My absolute idol!

  • @LarsSobiraj
    @LarsSobiraj 5 лет назад

    great job, thanks for producing this documentary

  • @imaloserdude7227
    @imaloserdude7227 2 года назад

    I am amazed at the breadth of his skills, as artists nowadays need a team of people, each specializing in a discrete task, yet MCE could do it all: vision, drafts on paper, carving the block from wood, and printing copies onto paper. Amazing dude.

  • @dianaefzz2504
    @dianaefzz2504 4 года назад

    Thank you for this documentary, it helped a lot with my artproject inspired by Escher!!

  • @armanchitect
    @armanchitect Год назад +1

    What an interesting figure! Thank you for sharing this documentary with us.

  • @JulianGrayMedia
    @JulianGrayMedia 6 лет назад +3

    Fantastic documentary of one of the greatest artists that ever lived!

  • @pratishthabatra8904
    @pratishthabatra8904 7 лет назад

    Thank you, thank you so much for this!

  • @LordMobias
    @LordMobias 11 лет назад +1

    What an amazing man and an amazing documentary. Thanks for posting.

  • @danbeaudet6718
    @danbeaudet6718 8 лет назад +7

    A true visionary artist! He actually foresaw (and influenced) the digital imaging we see today.

  • @SIRNUTSO
    @SIRNUTSO 10 лет назад +1

    THANKS FOR posting!!

  • @sabihatanveer8494
    @sabihatanveer8494 2 года назад +1

    always admired his work, a great insight in his personality this, thanks

  • @justbrowsingtheweb7791
    @justbrowsingtheweb7791 6 лет назад +2

    this documentary was great, love the notes from his journal, humane underneath it all but extremely dedicated to his work

  • @bentleygt3716
    @bentleygt3716 3 года назад

    GREAT Documentary. i enjoyed every minute of it
    THANK YOU.

  • @adamweilergurarye5422
    @adamweilergurarye5422 2 года назад

    Amazing ducomentary, thank you for uploading

  • @sharonjack7239
    @sharonjack7239 2 года назад +1

    Excellent video. Pure long-living intense creativity is not always accepted/understood by a mate. Especially, if the mate has no passion of her/his own. Most often, a true genius works alone. Thank you for sharing this video! USA

  • @universallovepeaceharmony2258
    @universallovepeaceharmony2258 7 месяцев назад

    The best doc on M.C.E. So far for me.
    Excellent soundtrack to accompany this genius…🥸😇😈

  • @aryehfinklestein9041
    @aryehfinklestein9041 6 лет назад +2

    What a wonderful film! thankyou.

  • @StephenS-2024
    @StephenS-2024 6 лет назад

    Excellent video. Thanks much.

  • @squiremuldoon5462
    @squiremuldoon5462 6 лет назад +5

    The important lesson here is that if you wish to be a great artist, it helps to have wealthy parents.

    • @Talvec12
      @Talvec12 3 года назад

      @Wenceslao Futanaki Very well said.

    • @DrWhom
      @DrWhom 3 года назад +1

      it is generally quite helpful in life to be moneyed

  • @alexthomson7465
    @alexthomson7465 2 года назад +1

    Wow! Thank you!

  • @Kara-kx1lb
    @Kara-kx1lb Год назад

    Back in the 1990's our shop use to sell his t-shirts. At first I really didn't like them. Then I started looking at his work. And I thought WoW, these are extremely awesome!!!

  • @candidogalicia6502
    @candidogalicia6502 2 года назад +2

    The auto caps are so off that at 25:09 I turned them off in order to be able to see the original caps.
    I usually avoid watching capless vids.
    But I have many young and old fond memories of his fantastic art.
    His art is like a book that is so interesting that you can't stop reading it even though you can't understand half of it.
    So far the the works shown
    here - that I've never seen before have been very worth watching.

  • @chetrok1
    @chetrok1 5 лет назад +2

    He is and will always be my original favorite artist, as an artist...i never wanted to immitate just harness the sight of his abstract works if possible

  • @sphereandlowthing3836
    @sphereandlowthing3836 10 лет назад +1

    BEAUTIFUL!
    THANX

  • @DaniloEtn
    @DaniloEtn 11 лет назад +1

    incredible how this amazing and so well produced documentary of this HUGE artist like Escher have got so few visits, this should be on he top 100

  • @Poemsapennyeach
    @Poemsapennyeach Год назад

    Wonderful documentary. Could not be better., thank you...but had to smile at some of the over-lapping translations.

  • @voices_vary
    @voices_vary 3 года назад

    Exquisite execution of very highly complex perspectives, this work is of true genius. It's also devoid of any human connection. He was a genius, and also very alienated.

  • @formercanadiancitizen4756
    @formercanadiancitizen4756 3 года назад

    What a genius, can’t wait for the release of the new doc!!!!

  • @notsure4508
    @notsure4508 2 года назад

    fantastic video, Escher is one of my favorites

  • @g.j.koster1986
    @g.j.koster1986 5 лет назад +1

    Watching a documentary like this makes me proud to be European but also make me sad seeing it decline so rapidly.

  • @flyingfishsurf
    @flyingfishsurf 7 лет назад +1

    As long as we are bound by time, Escher shall remain ahead of it.

  • @cocovinzmcmurphy7947
    @cocovinzmcmurphy7947 4 года назад

    Excellent documentary about this genius Escher was. Grazie

  • @ranjanjoshi3454
    @ranjanjoshi3454 Год назад

    Thanks lovely film insightful

  • @Dallas-Nyberg
    @Dallas-Nyberg 10 лет назад +1

    An creative genius... I love his work...

  • @xinxinli8779
    @xinxinli8779 3 года назад

    Thank you !!!!

  • @roryradio
    @roryradio 10 лет назад +2

    Great doco, I want to be more like MC!

  • @crustycobs2669
    @crustycobs2669 3 года назад +1

    An unbelievable genius like the Einstein of art, full of intricate puzzles

  • @arjanterveen9534
    @arjanterveen9534 2 года назад

    Hij was een tipisch voorbeeld van welgemanierdheid,deftig,zie perfect accent, zoals men vaker in die tijd in de lage landen tegenkwam;uitermate gediciplineerd met gevoel van eigenwaarde,romantisch op zichzelf,hoogbegaafd...

  • @ionu2731
    @ionu2731 6 лет назад +1

    how can someone dislike M.C Escher his so underrated

    • @g.j.koster1986
      @g.j.koster1986 5 лет назад

      He is still looked down on in the ART world today!

    • @g.j.koster1986
      @g.j.koster1986 5 лет назад

      @Wenceslao Futanaki Very true, although I work in the field of art myself. ;)

    • @DrWhom
      @DrWhom 3 года назад

      @@g.j.koster1986 Yes, but we have to admit that his figures were twee, reeking of the petit bourgeois he hailed from. I have never quite understood why he made these fantastic metamorphic landscapes and then peopled them with garden gnomes and giggling newts. My best hunch is that he actually had a keen appreciation of high art and this was his way of needling the pretence that permeates that world.

  • @BraniusBalki
    @BraniusBalki 5 лет назад

    You are always awesome Kate.

  • @gus3247365
    @gus3247365 6 лет назад

    Mc Escher was a genious , unevened to this very day ...He gave birth to so many artistic Ideas . I have been inspired by Escher many a time and I think any real artist was as well .Another Fresian.

  • @NoahsUniverse
    @NoahsUniverse 8 лет назад +5

    I think I can really understand what Escher was trying to show us with his magnificent creations. The world is all of a certain substance--a crystalline substance of which is of magnificent structure, and from this mathematical structure fractals out something infinitely into the endless complexity of chaos. And perhaps the same is to be said about ourselves?

  • @paulettemackenzie-dubuc6927
    @paulettemackenzie-dubuc6927 4 года назад

    Intriguing subject matter presented in a quirky way enjoyable to say the least. Been a fan since I bought three prints at a very minimal cost, the hands drawing each other, classic night and day and mud puddle. I still can't understand the math but after a hoot I stare at them for hours!

  • @Visualimpactsystems
    @Visualimpactsystems  8 лет назад +2

    Jess, The light grey subtitles are 'burned' into the video, but you can turn off the "computer-generated" ones. While your mouse is hovering over the video, in the bottom right there should be a "CC" icon. Just click on it and the subtitles will disappear (click on it again to get them back). [ Note: The "CC" icon may not appear until after playing the video for a minute or so ].

  • @davidcurtis7547
    @davidcurtis7547 2 года назад

    M C Escher was such an amazing man . Defying gravity and perspective as he did . He could make anything climb from his ink well ,himself inluded

  • @perfectinstructions9005
    @perfectinstructions9005 7 лет назад +1

    I love the subtitles for when Escher is speaking XD

  • @allgood6760
    @allgood6760 3 года назад

    Thank you👍🇳🇿

  • @heidik-lady8135
    @heidik-lady8135 3 года назад

    Wow that documentary was very well done & interesting. 👍🏆🙋

  • @e.a.wtzipporah1192
    @e.a.wtzipporah1192 4 года назад

    Amazing film about a genius there is no like m.c. Escher and there will never be anyone like m.c. Escher

  • @DeHeld8
    @DeHeld8 3 года назад +1

    this film moves me deeply.

  • @eggheadusa9900
    @eggheadusa9900 3 года назад

    My favorite artist hands down style and substance

  • @kevinsysyn4487
    @kevinsysyn4487 7 лет назад +2

    Just his skill at carving is beyond me. But to have conceived such things that cannot be and carved them... Esher is the very picture of being in class by himself.

  • @thepaulhenderson
    @thepaulhenderson 3 года назад +1

    Ar 17:54 you can see the wooden bird model (on the table) that will later be the subject of his "Another World."

  • @itumelenglefafa7111
    @itumelenglefafa7111 Год назад

    Beautiful 🤟🏾❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @SOCKS_RABBIT
    @SOCKS_RABBIT 3 года назад

    in eighth grade, my geometry teacher had that mc escher sketch of a man holding a silver ball-the one where it gives the room a fisheye-like perspective-and i sat to the far right and front of the room for two quarters, so every time i looked forward i was staring at it. i liked that class because the teacher was really funny and i got to hear the older kids making jokes and almost feel included in it, and i remember i used to check out and just stare at the artwork while i thought of a life for that man. i used to walk up from the middle school campus alone and because i have short legs and would take my time so it usually took me the whole five minute passing period. in the narrow walkway behind the softball field on the way up i would pause or sit or look up, and i had two imaginary friends that would join me-a bird and a butterfly-and in my head i’d tell them all about the class, the picture, how the clock ticked. i didn’t know what the sketch was from or who it was by until i went to new york later that year and saw a great big billboard with it and “M.C. Escher” written across as well, and i almost felt like my little imaginary world got the surprise spoiled. anyway, after eighth grade i let the imaginary friends fly away so i could grow up a little bit, and about a full year later from the new york trip i sat in the same classroom for some student council business and read the teacher’s huge book about mc escher when she left the room. i haven’t thought of him in a while, but when i do, i think of the stories i would invent about that picture, and new york, and 8th grade, and the start of high school, and now i’m here. Very interesting indeed

    • @SOCKS_RABBIT
      @SOCKS_RABBIT 3 года назад

      Girl ain’t no one gonna read this 1200 word essay double spaced times new Roman size 12 font

  • @nozecone
    @nozecone 3 года назад +1

    Wonderful.

  • @bankruptbritain6103
    @bankruptbritain6103 6 лет назад

    Absolutely brilliant film

  • @jobeLewOOH
    @jobeLewOOH 3 года назад

    new release coming 5/4/2021 on blu ray from Kino Lorber of 2019 documentary "M.C. Escher: Journey To Infinity"

  • @faithandheart9780
    @faithandheart9780 9 лет назад +3

    like the piece MC Esher did called "Ascending"

  • @MixturexD
    @MixturexD 11 лет назад +2

    Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)
    Rest in peace.

  • @blackcorp0001
    @blackcorp0001 5 лет назад

    Wow...what a fascinating artist

  • @rupertshean
    @rupertshean Год назад

    My favourite artist

  • @jam63112
    @jam63112 10 лет назад +2

    If he had access to computer graphics I guess his work would have been much more amazing. But it is already. I love this documentary

    • @DarkMoonDroid
      @DarkMoonDroid 7 лет назад +1

      Imagine what would have happened if he'd found out about fractals.

  • @ha-shop3626
    @ha-shop3626 3 года назад

    Just fascinating!!

  • @McKinleyMorann
    @McKinleyMorann 8 лет назад

    Phenomenal Score to this. Ron Ford according to the credits? Anyone any more info or can identify any other music used throughout?

  • @knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625
    @knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625 5 лет назад +1

    It almost seams like his drawings were all first attempts without any scraps or mistakes.

  • @nyakimovich
    @nyakimovich 6 лет назад +4

    "Life with a capitol L"

  • @wege8409
    @wege8409 4 года назад +2

    51:11
    This sounds like the nervous laughter of a man who is hiding something, and I love that so much. What a weird guy.

  • @MsOrgonomics
    @MsOrgonomics 7 лет назад

    SOMEONE HAS TINKERED WITH SUBTITLES - I wonder if the maker might fix this since it is otherwise a very interesting piece.

  • @k2blades019
    @k2blades019 3 года назад +1

    This was great! A happy ending too!

  • @NOVAsteamed
    @NOVAsteamed 7 лет назад

    A genius and a great inspiration.

  • @clevernamehere
    @clevernamehere 5 лет назад +3

    When I started dating my now fiance I told him good luck bc mc Escher doesn't have shit on my walls... And sadly he didn't get it... This was more of a joke than truth but still... I love this man, artist, inspiration!

  • @vivianrodriguez65
    @vivianrodriguez65 11 лет назад

    awesome

  • @SNROPQUEYR
    @SNROPQUEYR 5 лет назад

    Maurits Escher was above genius - Could you imagine if he took architecture as his career - Steps going up - at the same time - going down - Emerging inside out & outside in - Eventually twisting upside down - Finally taking shape - Downside Up -

  • @trinitaterion
    @trinitaterion 10 лет назад +1

    One of the very few great artists that modern times brought to us.
    A giant among insects.

  • @MrDoctorFog
    @MrDoctorFog 7 лет назад

    Hi guys, could someone of you tell me the last song in this video? As well as with Escher, I got in love with that song as well...

  • @terrywestbrook-lienert2296
    @terrywestbrook-lienert2296 10 лет назад +1

    Intriguing bio.

  • @strawberryfields5074
    @strawberryfields5074 2 года назад

    Why did they take such a creepy approach with the script and the music in this documentary? It's eerie AF, like a horror movie

  • @viclis11
    @viclis11 3 года назад

    At 7:05 read the bottom line of captioning text.

  • @spiritualcramp8000
    @spiritualcramp8000 4 года назад +2

    One of my fav. artists. he was so lucky to have the right teacher. if you see De Mesquita (teacher) artworks you see how much he was the right man in the right place. as Aristotelis and Pluto used to say, teaching is the most important job in classic society, unfortunately today teaching is one of the less payed and rewarded jobs, that shows the decadence of our society.