Vincent van Gogh was from the Netherlands and lived from 1853 to 1890. His paintings are mostly post-impressionist, and his later paintings had more vivid colors. His paintings were usually of real life subject matter and he sometimes distorted form and shapes in the paintings.
M.C. Escher was also from the Netherlands, but he lived from 1898 to 1972. His drawings were very mathematical and precise. He often used tessellations in his art which are tilings of a plane using geometric shapes. He also used mathematical shapes in some of his drawings.
The two artists styles seem very different, Van Gogh used more colors and his paintings had a more whimsical feeling, with not a lot of straight lines and shapes that made the painting look more appealing. And Escher didn’t use as many colors when he was drawing and his shapes are all mostly symmetrical and exact with smaller details. However both artists took shapes and manipulated them to look how they wanted but to different ends, Escher made his drawings more precise while Van Gogh made his paintings less precise.
It sometimes seems like Van Gogh’s paintings are not real objects even though he painted real objects, it looks like when he saw an object or a landscape he would change how he painted it to reflect how he saw it in his imagination. And even though Escher did more drawings of objects that aren’t exactly real, they look more real than Van Gogh’s Paintings because of the mathematical way they are drawn.
Starry Night, Van Gogh, 1889
The Bedroom, Van Gogh, 1888
House of Stairs, M.C.Escher, 1951
Gravitation, M.C.Escher, 1952
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