Word: titian
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Some artists go out in a blaze of glory. Titian is an obvious example: his dark, sketchy late work would be influential for centuries. Van Gogh is another: The Starry Night was produced by a man who would take his own life the following year. Pierre-Auguste Renoir went out in a blaze of kitsch. At least, that's the received opinion about the work of his final decades: all those pillowy nudes, sunning their abundant selves in dappled glades; all those peachy girls, strumming guitars and idling in bourgeois parlors; all that pink. In the long twilight...
...political caricatures seethed with outrage, the man himself was gentle--he was happiest in a museum, studying Titian and Tintoretto, or with friends at his Wednesday-night life-drawing class, which he co-hosted for half a century...