M.C. Escher was an uniquely gifted artist who had a knack for infusing art with mathematics, even though Escher himself claimed he had "no mathematical ability".
Obsessed with perspective, geometry, and pattern (Escher described tessellation as “a real mania to which I have become addicted”), his images have, by the count of mathematician and Escher scholar Doris Schattschneider, led so far to eleven separate strands of mathematical and scientific research.
In 1971 Dutch filmmaker Han Van Gelder asked Escher to demonstrate his artistic process for a documentary entitled Adventures In Perception, in which we can see Escher creating his final print Snakes.
Read more about M.C. Escher and "Adventures In Perception" at Open Culture