Today, I went to the Museum of Modern Arts and made my way up to the fifth floor to see the exhibition called “Paintings and Sculptures 1”. As I made my way across the exhibition, the painting that most caught me was this one called “Fishing Boat, Collioure” by Andre Derain. It was painted in 1905 by using Oil on canvas. It was part of the Philip L. Goodwin Collection from 1958.

The thing that struck me the most about this painting was the use of colors. It’s a very colorful picture. You can make out the boats to be of a blue color with red interior which is peculiar since boats in real life aren’t for the most part blue with a red interior. The faces of people on this painting has red and yellow faces. For these reasons, the painting feels very abstract. It feels as if Andre Derain was painting a scene but in an entirely colorful universal compared to the dull colors of such a scene if viewed in the colors of our world. The picture isn’t very detailed and is mostly filled with polygons of circles and lines. You can make out the basic shapes of everything to tell it’s a bunch of boats in a water environment and the artist is sitting on a dock painting the scene or remembering a scene he had on his mind but he can’t tell the exact details. Overall, this painting is very abstract for its features. From the varieties of colors to the simplistic designs, the artist painted a wonderful scene.