Cross was among a number of Neo-Impressionist artists to pursue the more decorative and potentially abstract possibilities of the pointillist technique. Like Paul Signac, in this view of the Mediterranean coast, he applies the regular, square brushstrokes of later Neo-Impressionism to create a tapestry-like effect. The landscape also has a strongly utopian quality linked to the artist's anarcho-socialist views. While women picnic, men work together in harmony to bring in the catch.
