@article{2016,title={SPACE ELEMENT IN DESIGN: SPATIAL COMPOSITION IN ESCHER’S PARADOXES},abstractNode={Man learns certain cues that help him making sense of depth, through his experiences. Thus an image or a design on a two-dimensional plane is perceived three-dimensionally although it has no depth as its real object has. A spatial perception, therefore, is created. Three-dimensional spatial illusion created on a two-dimensional surface of design is achieved by making consciously use of designing elements such as depth, size, perspective, color and tonal values. The use of space as a designing element and the impact of the mathematical basis in Escher’s images on paradoxal spatial compositions have been linked together in this study. Escher who created a great number of works, especially with the themes about visual perception, followed a cyclical path which destroyed all the known realities and broke the existing perceptions and rules in designing. For this reason he has been discussed here with his fictional works with three-dimensional figures and spaces he created with an impressive use of perspective on two-dimensional surface.},author={Sibel TİMUR},year={2016},journal={Kesit Akademi}}