Image #1
MC Escher - Rippled Surface - 1950
The lines of the branches are continuous. The rippled effect is due to the fact that the lines still parallel despite the zigzags. As a whole, the rippled effect seems really complex and elaborate. But when you look closer and take each branch separately, you realize the basic idea is actually really simple.
But the repetition of this basic idea, plus the superposition and the circle organisation lead to a really elaborate concept.
Image #2
MC Escher - Metamorphosis - 1937
If we compare the top left of the image with the top right, there is absolutely nothing in common. But if you take the picture from one side, and move cm by cm on the other side, the continuation is really obvious
Let's take the picture from the right to the left. You start with a little Chinese character. every time you move your eyes on cm on the right, just few tiny details have changed but you still notice the similarity. The Chinese character is slowly getting simpler and get insert in a pattern in a 3 shades: light, medium and dark (like the background).
This dark is becoming the shadows: the empty space becomes an actual part of another drawing.
The continuation is working perfectly because also of the utilisation of only 3 colours the artist will shades.
