The work of art I have chosen to write about is A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. It is a painting done by Georges Seurat, which portrays people relaxing next to a river. In this specific painting, Seurat uses a technique called pointillism, which is a painting technique that uses tiny paint dots of various colors which becomes blended by the viewer’s eye when looked at from a distance. I chose to focus on this painting because of the many spoofs that come with it. Not only that, but it is a very famous painting in itself. There must be a reason why so many people and companies spoof this specific painting whether it’s because of the popularity of the painting or just the money that they make off the spoof. Some concepts
