修拉在1885年完成新印象主义纪念性作品《大宛岛上的星期天》时,正是新印象主义运动发展至颠峰时期。这幅画完全采用分割画法,是修拉发表新技法的宣言。画面描绘一个初夏的星期日,男男女女在巴黎郊外的大碗岛愉快度假的情景。 It was the Neo-Impressionist movement that had developed to the height of the peak when Shurah completed Sunday’s Day of Dawn on the new Impressionist monumental work. The painting is entirely divisional painting, is a declaration of new techniques published by Seurat. The picture depicts an early summer Sunday, men and women in a large island in the outskirts of Paris, a happy holiday scene.