Seurat`s Dots: A Shot Heard `Round the Art World--Fired by an Artist, Inspired by a Scientist (Cell)

The iconic phrase `a shot heard `round the world` signifies an exceptional event. Seurat`s masterpiece La Grande Jatte, painted with many thousand dots of color, came as a shot to the art world--a shot fired by the imagination of the artist and inspired by the color theories of a scientist.