Even when our bus approached the Art Institute of Chicago I hadn't succeeded recalling who Georges Seurat is. Actually it was my very first time to travel around Chicago instead of simply stop by it; I was kind of overwhelmed by this. Basically the twenty minutes spent hovering around the downtown approved my proposition that all the downtowns in big cities are quite alike.

This is actually a free program offered to university and college faculty and students [ yeah, we were just charged $5 as bus fee ]. To my surprise, there were 44 colleges taking part in the exhibition tonight and the auditorium was almost full. The one-hour-long presentation titled "Seurat and the Making of 'La Grande Jatte'" made by a lady who never raised her tone all along was very informative. Until the most famous masterpiece of Seurat - A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - was shown on the screen did I recognize it and couldn't help shouting inside that "hey, I know this guy!"

Surely I knew this guy and I even tried to imitate his pointillism in the class of watercolor paining, though my efforts to draw a bunch of dots on the paper in purpose of drawing a tree were finally stopped by my teacher's remark. "Please don't dot like that. Try another brush stroke." My inspiration about pointllism was from a TV program I happened to watch the night before that day. I never expected that one day I would stand before the painting and appreciate it from all the angles I could think of. WOW!!!

Pointillism is a style of painting in which non- primary colors are generated, not by the mixing of pigments in the palette nor by using pigments directly, but by the visual mixing of points of primary colors, placed in close proximity to each other.

Nothing can explain the spirit of the technique better than examining the painting with your own eyes. Despite the physical distance between you and A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, there is another way you can experience as well. Enjoy!