This artist drew from an earlier depiction of pine trees in Calvi for a woodcut of tire tracks and footprints crossing over a reflective puddle. A statue of a simurgh gifted to this artist inspired the “bird-humans” that are depicted three times along the central vertical axis in the mezzotint Another World. Piranesi’s Imaginary Prisons inspired this artist’s lithograph of faceless people in a space with multiple sources of gravity. After studying Islamic tile art at the Alhambra, this artist began depicting figures such as knights and reptiles in tessellated patterns. This artist’s print Relativity depicts several staircases in a shape similar to a Penrose triangle. For 10 points, name this Dutch artist whose prints often depict impossible objects. ■END■
ANSWER: M. C. Escher [or Maurits Cornelis Escher]
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