Analyzing Bonnard's Still Life Painting

When you first look at the painting, you see the inside of a room but your eye is directed at a window with a tree outside. The image is a still-life painting, with the canvas oriented portrait-style. The artist is depicting a scene from his daily life. In the foreground, you see the inside walls of a room, with a woman petting a cat in the corner, and the background illustrates a tree through the window. The painting has been arranged in a way that the main focus - the window - takes up a large portion of the canvas, but is slightly off-center to create interest. There is a use of contrasting colours in the painting with the blues and greens outside the window and the reds and oranges inside the room. Most of the shapes are rectangular both
The technique of blending the lines and saturated colours together create a sense of unity and tranquility throughout the piece. My interpretation is that the primary goal of this painting is to create a feeling through the use of colour. He almost painted the foreground subjects to be camouflaged within the image, creating an emphasis on light and colour, which is used to exhibit the feeling of tranquility within the piece. The relationship between the title and the artwork is that the title tells you exactly what the image is - an open window. Your eye is first drawn to the large landscape outside when you initially look at the art, due to its large scale and contrasting colours to the rest of the piece. Between what you notice first and what you notice later, which is the woman with the cat, is that both parts of the painting contrast each other. The window is large with blue and green hues, and the woman with the cat is shown on a small scale with red and orange hues. I feel that Bonnard used this piece to capture a tranquil moment in time depicting peace both inside and outside of his