What are these people attempting to do? As many of you mentioned, they are trying to recreate Georges Seurat’s painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.”

What got its name because of this sketch? T.G. Montgomerie was surveying the mountains of Kashmir. During this survey he saw, in the far distance, a tall and conspicuous mountain in the direction of the Karakorams and immediately named it K1 (‘K’ stands for Karakoram). Later on, it turned out to be the beautiful mountain…

Why would this glum looking couple seem familiar to you? Though some of you may swear that it was Sumo at his wedding reception, the answer, as guessed by many of you painting buffs out there is that they appear in Grant Wood’s American Gothic. The models were Grant’s sis – Nan Wood Graham &…