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The Picture: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

George Seurat’s ‘A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte’ is a meticulous, unique and beautiful piece of painting in the history of art. Anyone coming across it for the first time admires the artistic skills that were employed by the author. It is evident that his main focus on the formal elements of paintings included color, light, scale, and form among other elements.

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande

Seurat’s Grande Jatte is among those unique works that stand alone in the field. It can be recognized instinctively by any individual interested in art. Its transcendence emanates from its theme, which is something more than capturing a momentous event or profound emotion; rather, it is the most prosaic of the workaday scene.

Protest Music

The following paper analyzes an example of a modern protest song with the aim to identify its peculiarities as a representative of the genre.