The circle is a tool that allows the viewer to expand his knowledge and awareness. Artists such as Monet, Manet, and Van Gogh were able to use techniques that allowed the world to see their vision filtered through their imagination. Hence, we get pointillism. Points- a tool used to create and enhance an image as seen by these artists. So the circle- a tool used by me to enhance the way I view an image. Images are so subjective in their very nature. Think of an accident scene: if a police officer were to ask each person what happened; each person's own perspective of what occurred would be revealed to us.
Which brings me to Picasso and what he viewed as beautiful as to what we as a consumer society view as beautiful. Picasso was able to absorb the world around him and, allow others to see his beauty through these images that looked strange or odd to the human eye. (or the viewer) In reality what he created was his vision that invoked a style of beauty.
Within this premise, Circlism, is a tool that I use to invoke a style of beauty. So please if you read this do not place negative stereotypes on such an innocent bystander as the circle. The circle can be used as a positive force in understanding the world around us. I can think of several images which first being that the sun to our eye is like a circle; bringing life through its rays of pure heat and energy. In biblical pictures halos which are the shape of circles that a sense of goodness and well being is revealed to us. The circle itself has no sides, but is curvaceous. The simple idea of roundness is attractive to human nature. Circles have a style which no other shape possesses. The style that comes out is one of bounciness.
...CIRCLISM... (sur`kliz`em) n. application of paint by diagramming an image in terms of tiny circles or figures to create an effect of subtle and complex dimensions. A school of painting exemplified by Stresino in the early 21st century United States. {Middle English cercle from old French, from Latin circulus} circle- a plane curve everywhere equidistant from a given fixed point, the center. surklizt n. & adj. sur`kliz`tic adj. Compare pointillism.
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