Blossoming, created soon after Borduas settled in Paris, overtly expresses an adherence to what the critic Clement Greenberg called “American-type painting.” In Paris, Borduas felt more and more American, or at least North American, and less French. The painting is a testimony to the impact that New York painting had had on him, and it distances him definitively from the Automatism of the 1940s: this new adventure began to follow a different path.