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For my art piece I chose M.C. Escher's "Eight Heads" from 1922. It depicts eight different heads that all form from each other. One of Escher's many styles was to make images that form other images inside themselves. "Eight Heads" show 2 faces that could be considered evil or the devil. It has four different women in the piece and the pattern of position of the heads is more prevalent here than with any other head. The last two figures are the heads of two men wearing hats of the style worn at the time. These two heads and two of the four female heads and staring right at you. The other four heads are flipped, so that they are upside when you see it in a book. Escher always had a way of incorporating many images into a small area by flipping certain images and making every two or four images form another single or two images. Most of Escher's works are black and white; some are in beautiful real color though. I guess you could call him a surrealist, but all of......

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