Momisa 1915

Pierre Bonnard made "Momisa" with oil on canvas, but when is anyone’s guess. Bonnard liked to circle back and rework his paintings years, even decades, after he first started them. The texture here is amazing, you can almost feel it, right? He’s really going for it with the brushstrokes, especially in the mimosa blossoms. It’s like he’s trying to capture not just how they look, but how they *feel* – that soft, fluffy texture. It is almost like they are dissolving right in front of us. Look at the top left corner, see how the colors start to bleed into each other? That kind of ambiguity is everywhere in his work. I’m reminded of Vuillard, his fellow Nabis painter, but where Vuillard goes for the melancholic, Bonnard always finds the joy. It’s like he’s saying, "Hey, life's messy, but isn't it beautiful?"