This past week in class I showed slides of historical work and talked about the evolution of color in art. A key figure was Georges Seurat, who invented a new approach to color that he called Divisionism, but became more popularly known as Pointillism. His most famous piece is the large scale painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", a detail of which is seen above. A question was raised in class as to what a particular item was. Just to the left of the seated person with an umbrella, at about the center of this photo, is a red object with a white circle toward the top. It was not clear from the projected slide in our half darkened room, and having studied it later in a good color photo, I'm still not sure what the thing is supposed to be. If you have an answer, please share it with the class at our next meeting.
