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Waterfall by MC Escher
MC Escher was an amazing Dutch artist whose surreal art prints like the impossible Waterfall shown here still dumbfound people as was undoubtedly Escher’s intention. MC Escher challenges the way we look at the world and the way our sense of sight works. Just glance at any Escher art print or poster and it hits you as he shows how the perspective can be manipulated to trick you into thinking we are seeing something you are not seeing. Even when you look closely at MC Escher’s art it can be hard to see how it all works. How did MC Escher manage to make it look like the waterfall is perpetual? How does it end up where it started defying all the logic of our perceptions? MC Escher was an extraordinary Dutch artist with a keen interest in geometry. MC Escher produced many surreal visual puzzles and some of these Escher puzzles were used for album cover art like Reptiles for the Mott the Hoople album. MC Escher’s work, has never really dated and an MC Escher impossible puzzle looks as freash today as it did back when he drew them.
A guest in your home seeing Escher’s endless waterfall is going to be drawn to comment. If you’d like to see our range of MC Escher prints and posters then just click here where there are plenty of different Escher products to chose from either for yourself or to give someone else a slice of Escher mind-bending!
As usual we will be dispatching everyhing we have in on the last posting dates before Christmas 2011 so make sure you get your order of art prints, posters, tshirts etc in at Artists UK before the date for your area so you get your goodies in time:
South & Central America, Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Far East (including Japan), Australia and New Zealand - Monday 5th December
Eastern Europe, USA and Canada - Friday 9th December
Western Europe - Monday 12th December
UK - Thursday 22nd December (orders must be in by 5pm on Wedesday!)
If you need something after these dates you’ll need to contact us about organising a courier to get your order to you in time but be aware that this can be quite costly for destinations outside of the UK if the order is either heavy or large. Saturday delivery in the UK will increase the shipping charge by between £25 - £35.
Happy Shopping and have a great time over the festive season 
The Artists UK Krazy Summer Sale is finally over and what a busy summer it has been. In some respects it is good that it has not been so warm up here! Did we really sell over 50 prints and posters for only 1p? It seems like some of our customers really couldn’t believe their luck. Strangely, the hits on our website and the orders that are coming in after the sale are well up so maybe our madness has not been so mad after all. Maybe all our grateful customers receiving their print or poster for only 1p have been telling other people how mad we are … or maybe something a little kinder. We do our best and can only hope
The War Spell by Ed Org
This amazingly beautiful pencil sketch has just been published as a fine art limited edition print limited to only 850 copies signed and numbered by the artist Ed Org. Like all his pencil sketch work it is finely detailed and tremendously evocative. No wonder his fame is growing by leaps and bounds. There are very few artists in the genre to compete with him in terms of composition or technique. There are prints available now to suit practically any pocket or wall space from the small moon faerie sketches and countryside themes to these medium sized prints right up to the enormous ‘Wife of Lleu’ that despite its size and price is still one of his most popular works. If there is a list of current artists in the fantasy genre whose work is most likely to be viewed very favourably in the future and become extremely collectible then no doubt Ed Org must be well-placed on that list. You’ll find more examples of his excellent artwork here.
Artists rarely have time to put pen to paper or bash out an email about what they are doing but occasionally we get updates on what artists are doing and what shows they are at etc. Michael Kaluta, the well-known American artist, while waiting for the go-ahead for his latest project, has told us what he’s been up to in his last busy year. This is what Michael Kaluta has to say -
“… back in March ‘09, I was drawing the 3rd issue of a 5-issue story arc for DC/Vertigo’s Madame Xanadu comic book: the collected issues, titled Exodus Noir, just hit the stands here in the States.
Fate of Dollies Lost in Dreams by Michael Kaluta
Sentry by Michael Kaluta
The difficulty with some of Michael Kaluta’s work is that although it is quite immediate, vibrant and colourful, you don’t really appreciate it until you look at it closely and carefully. So few people take the time to really look at art and they are poorer for the lack of attention they give to it. If you want art to touch you then you have to give it your attention. A quick glance and, “Oh that’s nice” really doesn’t do it. Art will draw you in and reach depths of you that you didn’t know existed but you have to give it the chance to do that. These two paintings by Michael Kaluta are very much like that. ‘Fate of Dollies’ will probably awaken feelings you haven’t had since you were a child and possibly the same with ‘Sentry’. ‘Sentry’ is more complex and poses more questions but both are truly evocative pieces like so much of Michael Kaluta’s work. Let’s hope he’s doing it for many more years to come.
Click on the Dark Dragon and see more great art by Ciruelo Cabral!