Double Planetoid
Double Planetoid is a wood engraving print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in 1949.
Description
[edit | edit source]Double Planetoid is printed in four colors from four wood blocks.[1] It depicts a planetoid in the shape of a compound of two tetrahedra, interpenetrating each other to form a stellated octahedron.[2] One of the two tetrahedra is entirely covered by architecture, while the other is a wilderness populated by saurian creatures.[1] The planetoid is shown within a circular black field, 37.5 centimetres (14.8 in) in diameter.[3]
Themes
[edit | edit source]Double Planetoid is part of a series of Escher's prints from the 1940s and 1950s that depict small polyhedral planets, also including Gravitation (1952) and Tetrahedral Planetoid (1954),[4] and possibly in the same universe as his print Stars (1948).[1] It has thematic connections with other Escher prints from the same period that provide simultaneous views of intermingled worlds, including the more realistic prints Puddle (1952) and Three Worlds (1955),[5] and is one of many Escher works using the geometry of polyhedra and polyhedral compounds.[6]
Collections
[edit | edit source]Copies of the print are included in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada,[7] the US National Gallery of Art,[8] and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.[3]
See also
[edit | edit source]- Tetrahedral hypothesis, the discredited scientific theory that the arrangement of the Earth's continents comes from the geometry of a tetrahedron
References
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