Circlism Definition, Meaning & Pronunciation

 

Circlism Definition has reached 4,000 thumbs up and Counting on Urban Dictionary!

     It is hard to believe that a milestone of 4,000 thumbs up votes has been reached! This could not have been possible without all the supporters of my artwork, and the revolution we have begun in transforming how art can be done! Hats off to all those who are using Circlism and continue to do so!  Keep on creating circles!

The Unveiling of my 30th Circlism Painting!

A Moment in Time  

My 30th painting in the size of 4 feet by 4feet on masonite in oils.  

Entitled: A Moment in Time.

          John F. Kennedy definitively encapsulated a moment in history which would help to define an entire generation.  His words were not only meant to inspire,  but to catapult our energies and ingenuity to strive for more!                                                                                                                                                           

           In Kennedy's own words: ..............."We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things,  not because they are easy but because they are hard because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills,  because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept,  one we are unwilling to postpone and one which we intend to win,  and the others,  too."

The circlism technique increased their eye-catchiness.

             The Story of Circlism by : Edward C. Stresino

     I enjoyed seeing pictures of the 

beautiful, intricate paintings. 

The pictures are detailed and fanciful. 

The circlism technique increased their eye-

catchiness. Also, the funny, engaging writing 

style in the included short 

stories makes them a fun read!

Lisa Hamm 

Nurse in Clovis, California

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World Premiere of Planet "X" Mining town

World Premiere of Planet "X" Mining Town!

Planet "X" Mining Town

 

I opened the book expecting to just see art but, was amazed at the detail of thought .....................................

Title Information : The Story of Circlism
Author: Stresino, Edward C.
$24.99 hardcover, $18.99 paperback
ISBN:978-1-46918-529-3;
Published: March 30, 2012

Book Review:

Truly unique art! The book is illustrated with vibrant pictures of extraordinary scenes that makes your imagination run wild. I loved the explanations and stories within the book. I opened the book expecting to just see art but, was amazed at the detail of thought that was explained throughout the pages. A true unique experience all around, I will recommend this book to everyone.

Christina Borgonia

Elementary School Teacher

      

     




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A glimpse into the creative mind of Edward C. Stresino

             

        The Story of Circlism is an extraordinary book and a glimpse into the creative mind of Edward C. Stresino. He takes the reader on a journey that is both autobiographical and fantastical. Encouraged by the love and devotion of his father Edward C. Stresino pursued his interest in art to develop Circlism.
        He discovered this technique integrating his fascination of science and art. I love all the subjects on his art because they depict universal concepts of nature and philosophical themes of ontology. His use of bold colors bring his creations to life and evokes powerful emotions.
          Through The Story of Questor and The Frog and the Scorpion Stresino adds a written dimension to his brilliant art. I highly recommend this book to readers of all ages. It will inspire readers because Stresino encourages us all to honor our creativity while integrating different curriculum or while simply experiencing life! Incredible!!!

Susana Haroutunian


Elementary School Teacher

  
 
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The Story of Circlism introduces the World to the Visual Art of Edward C. Stresino for the 21st Century and Beyond!

                    Renteria  Reviews:                         

Title Information : The Story of Circlism

Author:   Stresino, Edward C.

$24.99 hardcover, $18.99 paperback

ISBN:978-1-46918-529-3;

Published: March 30, 2012

Book Review:


     Stresino's origin story for Circlism is an inspiration for all artists to utilize and implement this very innovative technique. Stresino's influences of Van Gogh, Monet, Kandisky, and Picasso can clearly be seen in his artwork.  Stresino's very art like those before him, will help to define Visual Art for the 21st century and beyond!  
      The Story of Questor is an added bonus that gives the reader insight into the Artist's mind, and happens to create and envision a world beyond one's own very imagination for his pieces': Questor, Warrior Princess, and Questor's Labyrinth.
    As a result The Story of Circlism is a special treat for all readers and Connoisseur's of Art.  The Author and Artist Stresino has simultaneously created an Art book, a graphic novel, and has reimagined the fable: The Frog and The Scorpion.  Where else could one be inspired, informed, and entertained all at once? 

 Xenia Renteria

Elementary School Teacher




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The most surprising thing about The Story of Circlism, is............

       The most surprising thing about The Story of Circlism, is not that it dares just to introduce us to a whole new style of painting.  It dares to create this colorful volume of stories and art which achieve a surprisingly detailed ease.  The thoughtful but hopelessly in love hero Questor eagerly takes on the quest, and captures the hearts and minds of its readers!

Ilse Hutchinson
Elementary School Teacher

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Happy Birthday to Martin Luther King Jr. on his 85th birthday

         It is hard to believe that today would be Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's 85th birthday today!!!!! Congratulations on spreading your dream of equality throughout the world! 

A Tribute to the beliefs of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Justice for All by: Edward C. Stresino

  I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."¹ I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."2 This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning: My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring! And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that: Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.-

I can heartily recommend The Story of Circlism to "Ladies and Gentlemen, and children of all ages!"

                       Edward C. Stresino has produced a volume which is a unique and wonderful mélange of his own original stories, an extensive gallery of his distinctive paintings, and an engaging description of his artistic style and process.  It all comes together in a feast of color and language that is a sumptuous treat for the eye and the mind.  There is something here for everyone, so this is a book that parents can share with their sons and daughters.  Paraphrasing a 1950's New York television host, I can heartily recommend The Story of Circlism to "ladies and gentlemen, and children of all ages!"

Jay Lieberman

Elementary School Teacher

 

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The Story of Circlism is Extraordinary!

Extraordinary! Expressively Illustrated! Fascinating Narrative! Boundless Adventure! Once you pick this book up you are mesmerized by the talent of Stresino, the vivid colors, patterns, and designs!  The personal attention to each page is a testament to the Artist and his amazing artwork!  

Ianthe Knezevich
Elementary School Teacher and Domestic Provider  
    
 
    
       
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