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exploring the Elements and Principles of Art along with different media and techniques such as pencil, acrylic paint, watercolor, printing, and some sculpting. Students are expected to keep an open mind and creative spirit. Students are also expected to develop their own ideas.

Mathematics, particularly the theme of Geometry played a large role in almost all of the work Escher created in his life time. He would often use tessellation's and his use of polyhedral and geometric distortions have been an inspiration to both mathematicians and scientists over the last century.

Escher's Waterfall is based on the Impossible Triangle of his friend and admirer  Roger Penrose,  the British mathematician and physicist. In fact, Escher incorporated not one but two Penrose tribars, as they are now known, in his lithograph.

A set of four glass ramps positioned in a square clearly show water travelling up each of them before it pours off the top, only to start again at the bottom of the next ramp.

One of these is an optical illusion that shows water going uphill and round and round the four sides of a square perpetually,

How is the illusion achieved?

No one knew the answer and he did not tell us the answer.

"The ascent to the highest story is by stairs, and at their side are water engines, by means of which persons, appointed expressly for the purpose, are continually employed in raising water from the Euphrates into the garden."

ifting the water far into the air