Puddle is a woodcut print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher , first printed in February 1952.
Since 1936, Escher’s work had become primarily focused on paradoxes , tessellation and other abstract visual concepts. This print, however, is a realistic depiction of a simple image that portrays two perspectives at once. It depicts an unpaved road with a large pool of water in the middle of it at twilight. Turning the print upside-down and focusing strictly on the reflection in the water, it becomes a depiction of a forest with a full moon overhead. The road is soft and muddy and in it there are two distinctly different sets of tire tracks, two sets of footprints going in opposite directions and two bicycle tracks. Escher has thus captured three elements: the water, sky and earth.
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Works
1910s
Escher's Father
Bookplate Bastiaan Kist
Chrysanthemum
Head of a child
Skull
Railway Bridge, Oosterbeek
Mascot
Portrait of a Man (I)
Self-Portrait (I)
Baby
Young Thrush
Bookplate M. C. Escher
Self-Portrait (II)
Jug
The Rag Pickers
Fiet van Stolk
Waves
Self-Portrait (III)
White Cat (I)
The Borger Oak
Portrait
Seated Man with cat on his lap
Tree
Self-Portrait (IV)
Parrot
White Cat (II)
Sea-shell
1920s
Self Portrait in a Chair
Rabbits
Female Nude in a Landscape
Wild West
The Fall of Men
Escher's Father with Magnifying Glass
Portrait of a Man (II)
Man Standing
Seated Old Woman
Flower
Seated Female Nude (I)
Seated Female Nude (II)
Seated Female Nude (III)
Roosje Ingen Housz
Poster
Plane-filling Motif with Human Figures
Paradise
Seated Female Nude (IV)
Seated Female Nude (V)
Hand with Fir Cone
St Francis
Eight Heads
Eagle, vignette
Dolphins
San Gimignano
Self-Portrait (V)
Portrait of Jetta
Vitorchiano nel Cimino
The First Day of the Creation
The Sixth Day of Creation
The Fall of Man
Procession in Crypt
Rome
Castle in the Air
Tower of Babel
Fara San Martino, Abruzzi
Corte, Corsica
The Drowned Cathedral
Infant Arthur Escher
Self-Portrait (VI)
Barbarano, Cimino
1930s
Street in Scanno, Abruzzi
Castrovalva
The Bridge
Fiumara, Calabria
Tropea, Calabria
Cloister near Rocca Imperiale, Calabria
Atrani, Coast of Amalfi
Covered Alley in Atrani
Ravello and the Coast of Amalfi
Coast of Amalfi
Farmhouse, Ravello
San Cosimo, Ravello
Turello, Southern Italy
Porta Maria dell'Ospidale, Ravello
Lion of the Fountain in the Piazza at Ravello
San Michele dei Frisone, Rome
Mumified Priests in Gangi, Sicily
Temple of Segeste, Sicily
Cave Dwellings (near Sperlinga) Sicily
Palm
Caltavuturo in the Madonie Mountains Sicily
Cloister of Monreale Sicily
Lava Flow of 1928 from Etna Sicily
Pineta of Calvi, Corsica
Phosphorescent Sea
Fireworks
Old Olive Tree, Corsica
Nonza, Corsica
Still Life with Mirror
Nocturnal Rome: Colonade of St Peter's
Nocturnal Rome: Santa Maria del Popolo
Nocturnal Rome: Trajan's Column
Nocturnal Rome: Basilica of Constantine
Nocturnal Rome: Castel Sant' Angelo
Nocturnal Rome: Colosseum
Aeroplane above Snowy Landscape
Still Life with Spherical Mirror
Hand with Reflecting Sphere
Regular Division of the Plane
Inside St Peter's
Portrait of G.A. Escher
Sengela, Malta
Hell, copy after Hieronymus Bosch
Snow
Prickly Flower
House in the Lava near Nunziata, Sicily
Still Life and Street
Metamorphosis I
Development I
Day and Night
Cycle
Sky and Water I
Sky and Water II
Entrance to the Oude Kerk, Delft
Development II (I)
Development II (II)
Oostpoort, Delft
Nieuwe Kerk, Delft
Town Hall, Delft
Voldersgracht, Delft
1940s 1950s 1960s
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