I found more of Edward C. Stresino's Artwork at ArtWanted.Com!

Some really great work!

Finally getting the Recognition that Stresino deserves!

As I usually do I was doing my Circlism search  on Google and I ran across this :

 Which led me to a report that had been done in Crete, Greece introducing a program that can Circlize pictures using an algorithm which they define as circle packing!   In the first few pages of the report it acknowledges that Edward C. Stresino first introduces Circlism in 1985!   It is hard to believe that in two more years Circlism will have its thirtieth anniversary!

Analysis of Warrior Princess

Warrior Princess by Edward C. Stresino

                                    Warrior Princess

        She is a woman of her own will. She will not sit around to be rescued. She gathers her men for an all out battle to the end! It is a struggle to regain the kingdom for her father. 
She with her army, has caused chaos and anarchy, but once they have taken out the enemy she will re-establish the power of her father's kingdom where she will promise to rule in a benevolent fashion. (as quoted by the Artist  Stresino in his blog dated October 19th, 2007)

        There is more to this than the description the Artist Stresino gives.   The painting depicts a battle between those loyal  to her and those who are willing to risk their lives for the evil that has grown through greed, poverty, and despair.  The moral decline of a kingdom that will need to rebuild its moral values and infrastructure in order to regain the influence it once had.  The newly established kingdom will need time, and the ability to regain the trust of its subjects.

                                                    

Beginning Stages of Warrior Princess by Edward C. Stresino

          It is so interesting to see the rawness of this painting in this picture!  Even with the main portions drawn out the complexity of the painting shows so much promise!   It was eventually well-executed as the end results have proven.                                                   

Stresino's Painting: Molecular Structure inspired Poem!

         

                 Not surprising that the impact of this painting can inspire the words to a poem!

The Poem can be found in the in the Meez forum :

Evolutionary Ancestral

Arriving Bundled Molecular Structures 

A large twitching cloud ;

Too weak

To speak 

Their minds they wander 

Aimlessly hoping 

To form opinions 

With Pea-sized Brains! 

Written for a painting piece- two weeks ago! 

(A revised Poem)

Evolutionary Ancestral

Arriving

Bundled Molecular Structures,

aimless

fidgeting clouds

too faint

to taint

with

an opening mouth

too weak 

to speak

aimless

twitching minds with

the growing pains

of pea-sized brains

(revisions by Edward Stresino a Modern Poet check out: )(www.skirmisheswithreality.blogspot.com)

Dream, Nightmare, or Reality? You tube Video Analysis

     I love how the artist Stresino combines the intricacy of his painting Dream, Nightmare, or Reality  with the song Paradise by Coldplay.    The song tells the story of girl who is longing for her happiness, and is trying to find it.   The best way for her to accomplish this is finding happiness in her dreams.  
     Stresino's painting captures the quality of a dream state and shows us how the girl in her painting faces her obstacles to reach her paradise that will bring only a temporary happiness.   Her state of being is ambivalent due to the danger that surrounds her.  The question is will she wake up in enough time!

Songwriters: MARTIN, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY JOHN / BERRYMAN, GUY RUPERT / BUCKLAND, JONATHAN MARK / CHAMPION, WILLIAM / ENO, BRIAN

When she was just a girl 
She expected the world 
But it flew away from her reach so 
She ran away in her sleep 
And dreamed of 
Para-para-paradise, Para-para-paradise, Para-para-paradise 
Every time she closed her eyes 

When she was just a girl 
She expected the world 
But it flew away from her reach 
And the bullets catch in her teeth 
Life goes on, it gets so heavy 
The wheel breaks the butterfly 
Every tear a waterfall 
In the night the stormy night she'll close her eyes 
In the night the stormy night away she'd fly 

And dreams of 
Para-para-paradise 
Para-para-paradise 
Para-para-paradise 
Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh 
She'd dream of 
Para-para-paradise 
Para-para-paradise 
Para-para-paradise 
Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh-oh 

La-la-la-la-la-la-la 
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la 
And so lying underneath those stormy skies 
She'd say, "oh, ohohohoh I know the sun must set to rise" 

This could be 
Para-para-paradise 
Para-para-paradise 
This could be 
Para-para-paradise 
Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh 
This could be 
Para-para-paradise 
Para-para-paradise 
This could be 
Para-para-paradise 
Oh oh oh oh oh oh-oh-oh-oh

Celebrating Justice for All

          In this painting what we see is a dichotomy of how justice can be perceived.   In the history of the United States justice was defined by a selected few who happened to be landowners who happened to be white and men.  Now it took a Civil War a forward looking President such as Abraham Lincoln to envision a future where justice is not defined by what you own or what you look like!         
         A whole slew of African-American leaders such as Frederick Douglas,  W.E.B. Dubois,  Harriet Tubman,  Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, and of course Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  These leaders helped to bring about a new way of thinking especially Dr. King who relayed his message that we can not judge a person by their appearance,  but by the content of their character.  He was willing to fight for what was right including spending time in jail for what he believed!    His inspiration comes through by his actions and through the influence of Gandhi, who believed that the path of non-violence is the only and true lasting path for creating true justice and equality. 
         Emmet Till suffered an unjust death by the hands of white supremacists.  Today we still have tragedies that undermine the future of our justice such as that of Trayvon Martin.   We must look beyond and find a true American justice that will work not only for the selected few, but for everyone!
          Jeanihess certainly does a superb job of collecting images that portray the scales of justice.  What she does forget is that justice, even though it is not very balanced when dealing with certain issues such as water,  classes,  power,  violence,  education, and even religion.   There is a type of justice that defines each country, and its past.   The United States being a first world country should be a leader in defining how justice is handed out.  The system of justice is not perfect as the example of United States history has shown.
           Stresino's take on justice elaborates what we know in reminding us that justice is a struggle a human struggle that we must continue striving for!  Once we realize that equality and justice are a basic human right we will succeed in a future where the scales of justice can be balanced once and for all!!!

  Justice for All: by: Ed Stresino

 Equality for all people is a universal battle that engages all of us. The fight for justice is rooted in a human struggle towards this basic human right. 

 -Edward C. Stresino-

                                             

Analyzing Molecular Structure

  In this painting not only do I see the vibrancy of the colors!  I feel like I am witnessing a miracle.  The painting takes a very complicated  molecule such as the cell to not only depict this it goes deeper into the cellular structure.  It basically shows how the genetic codes of most living organisms function!  As described by Wikipedia:

"Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a molecule that encodes the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and many viruses. Along with RNA and proteins, DNA is one of the three major macromolecules essential for all known forms of life. Most DNA molecules are double-stranded helices, consisting of two long biopolymers of simpler units called nucleotides—each nucleotide is composed of a nucleobase (guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine), recorded using the letters G, A, T, and C, as well as a backbone made of alternating sugars (deoxyribose) and phosphate groups (related to phosphoric acid), with the nucleobases (G, A, T, C) attached to the sugars. DNA is well-suited for biological information storage, since the DNA backbone is resistant to cleavage and the double-stranded structure provides the molecule with a built-in duplicate of the encoded information.
The two strands of DNA run in opposite directions to each other and are therefore anti-parallel, one backbone being 3′ (three prime) and the other 5′ (five prime). This refers to the direction the 3rd and 5th carbon on the sugar molecule is facing. Attached to each sugar is one of four types of molecules called nucleobases (informally, bases). It is the sequence of these four nucleobases along the backbone that encodes genetic information. This information is read using the genetic code, which specifies the sequence of the amino acids within proteins. The code is read by copying stretches of DNA into the related nucleic acid RNA in a process called transcription.

Within cells, DNA is organized into long structures called chromosomes. During cell division these chromosomes are duplicated in the process of DNA replication, providing each cell its own complete set of chromosomes. Eukaryotic organisms (animals, plants, fungi, and protists) store most of their DNA inside the cell nucleus and some of their DNA in organelles, such as mitochondria or chloroplasts.^[1] In contrast, prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea) store their DNA only in the cytoplasm. Within the chromosomes, chromatin proteins such as histones compact and organize DNA. These compact structures guide the interactions between DNA and other proteins, helping control which parts of the DNA are transcribed."

What other artist other than Stresino can take a phenomenal discovery by Watson and Crick, such as DNA and depict it in such a  unique fashion!

Analysis of Circlism as a tool to invoke a style of beauty!

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. 

               The Artist Stresino in his argument is trying to take the circle and use it as a filter through his own imagination. He succeeds in creating an original piece of artwork that not only uses the circle but enhances the way a viewer can see the image as only he can see it.  

                Stresino explains that  Picasso's  artwork  is perceived by the viewer as  a  new vision of the Artist's eye,   "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."  (Stresino as quoted on his blog Father of Circlism)

              Stresino succeeds in creating a newly formed style of beauty that from the get go is as original and innovative take on how circles can enhance an image by delineating and focusing on the positive and negative spaces!   Stresino succeeds where other artists have failed.