What does color speak?
Co-produced by art institutions in #China, #France, and #Monaco, the exhibition “Colors!” has recently landed in #Beijing as 2026’s first blockbuster in modern art. It features masterpieces from the #CentrePompidou by icons such as #Picasso and #Matisse. Join Global Times’ Li Yuche to check out the exhibition – and China’s vibrant cultural scene.

Co-produced by art institutions in #China, #France, and #Monaco, the exhibition “Colors!” has recently landed in #Beijing as 2026’s first blockbuster in modern art. It features masterpieces from the #CentrePompidou by icons such as #Picasso and #Matisse. Join Global Times’ Li Yuche to check out the
"La froide exactitude n’est pas l’art." (Cold exactitude is not art.) —Eugène Delacroix
"L’exactitude n’est pas la vérité." (Exactitude is not truth.) —Henri Matisse
Así valora el pasado Matisse, y lo perpetúa con sus melodías | #RollingStoneES
https://es.rollingstone.com/asi-valora-el-pasado-matisse-y-lo-perpetua-con-sus-melodias-2/
I sit in my moulded black chair
near to Matisse’s ‘Draped Nude’ (1936).
Sometimes someane touches a canvas
and I staun up, which is usually enough.
I’m no a man o unnecessary words…
—Duncan Glen,“Twa Warlds”
in The Edinburgh Book of 20th-Century Scottish Poetry (EUP, 2005)
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#Scotish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #art #visualart #Matisse

Happy birthday, Henri Matisse (b. 12/31/1869)!
(Photo from the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia)