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Georges Seurat’s, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte is one of those rare pieces that’s style has tried to been recreated by other artists, but has never been done successfully. This work has transcended all other works of its time not because it has a deep down meaning or emotion, but rather because it could relate to an everyday summer day that mostly everyone has experience before. There is something about this work that makes it much more powerful and important than it appears to be. Any work that was finished many years ago and still relate to people today is something very special. Perhaps it was because Seurat painted it with a scientific theory know as pointillism.(1) Seurat understood and loved the use of shapes and patterns, but he took these basic ideas and pushed them to the next level. His new scientific style that he created himself known as pointillism proved to be a very unusual and affective way of painting. Pointillism is the use of painting with dots of color rather than using brush strokes. Each dot is used side by side to enable the viewer’s eye blend the colors together optically. The amazing thing about Seurat is that he painted it when he was twenty-five years old, already having his scientific the