Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576) known in English as Titian ( /ˈtɪʃən/) was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto), in the Republic of Venice. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth.
Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars" (recalling the famous final line of Dante's Paradiso), Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of color, would exercise a profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art.
During the course of his long life, Titian's artistic manner changed drastically but he retained a lifelong interest in color. Although his mature works may not contain the vivid, luminous tints of his early pieces, their loose brushwork and subtlety of polychromatic modulations are without precedent in the history of Western art.
For the football player of the same name see Tom Keating (American football). For the priest and author of the same name see Thomas Keating.
Thomas Patrick Keating (March 1, 1917 - February 12, 1984) was an art restorer and famous art faker who claimed to have faked more than 2,000 paintings by over 100 different artists.
Keating was born in Lewisham, London, into a poor family. After World War II he began to restore paintings for a living, though he also worked as a house painter to make ends meet. He exhibited his own paintings, but he failed to break into the art market. He had a wife Hellen that he separated from in his later years. They had a son called Douglas.
Keating perceived the gallery system to be rotten, dominated, he said, by American "avant-garde fashion, with critics and dealers often conniving to line their own pockets at the expense both of naive collectors and impoverished artists". Keating retaliated by creating forgeries to fool the experts, hoping to destabilize the system.
Can Darkness Win Light?
El Greco: You once reached out for God, and your fingers closed on emptiness ; and you didn't learn. How can God speak to you when instead of loving you burn, ruin and spread hatred all around?::El Greco: Now, of course, my turn has come - but you can't burn me... and I'll tell you why :::El Greco: Because I've been burning all my life, my entire life ; not in the fire, in the light. I threw myself into the blaze of it.::El Greco: You light fires because you're afraid to burn. You are afraid of the light and this is why I pity you, my old friend, Niño de Guevara.::El Greco: Because you aren't wrong to be afraid, but every flame you light drives you deeper into the darkness and no matter how many people you burn, you will never escape it.::El Greco: Can the darkness condemn the light?
I’m certain that we will face a few rough edges
I’m certain that we will learn a few life lessons
I could piss you off with some ill thought remark
But we are both reaching out through our dark
I’ll guarantee we’ll find a few sacrifices
A few disagreements for our bad choices
One by one
It is what it is
So surrender your armor and just give into this
So won’t you
Stand with me In the pouring rain
Stand with me in the pouring rain
Cause I want to stay with you by my side.
With you by my side
I’m certain there will be times
I’ll see green and you’ll see blue
A portrait of love from our own points of view
I’m singing the lines upon you face
Facing the memories
I’ll never erase
So won’t you
Stand with me In the pouring rain
Stand with me in the pouring rain
Cause I want to stay with you by my side.
Tracing the lines of the times in my mind when I should have been there
When I could have done something if only I had dared
Now I fumble my words and swallow the years that I could have tried
Etching out a smile just to pay for the pride
Chorus:
I gotta get it
Gotta get myself together
Got to be wise got to be bold got to be
Straight up clever
All of the days that you wasted away
When you could have tried
Scared of the dream you choose to survive
Every single day every word you waste every dream that you taste
Maybe you could put it all back together
Bridge:
Just keep your head above the
Just keep your head above the ground
I can’t get, get ahead take a step, say a word in edgewise sometimes
Its hard to swim in the paper-thin world that we’re living in
But keep your head on your shoulders and your shoulders to the sky
Listen to the little voice singing inside
Twisting your turns and spinning your words out of focus just notice you
What ever you’re doing
I want you to to stop it right now
Just take a little break, a little moment for yourself
What are you proving
By working so hard
Just breath, you know you need a little moment to yourself
Prechorus:
Maybe you forget to breathe once in a while
Take a moment to just notice life and smile
Chorus
Take a little moment, break just for a minute, steal away the time to breathe easy
Take a little moment, sneak a little second, don’t you think it’s time to stop…
and breathe easy
Verse 2:
Who are you kidding
By driving so fast
Do you think you’re going to sink, just take a moment to yourself
Just spill the beans
Let the kitty cat out of the bag
It don’t matter, all the chatter, take a moment for yourself
Prechorus:
The yakkey smackity do this’ity that’idy, gets old after awhile
Take a moment to just notice life and smile
Chorus
Take a little moment, break just for a minute, steal away the time to breathe easy
Take a little moment, sneak a little second, don’t you think it’s time to stop…
and breathe easy
Verse 1
Its easy to keep
searching for meaning
On how to be complete
Buts its nice to feel
where you are is where your
are supposed to be
Prechorus
All have is now
All we need is now
All we know is now
Now is all we need
Chorus:
This is where I need to be
Right where I’m meant to be
If things change and they always do
Then I will be here now for you
Verse 2
You, you make me speak to
The ghosts I don’t want to face
But its beautiful to feel the support
As we take our leap of faith
Prechorus
All have is now
All we need is now
All we know is now
Now is all we need
Chorus
This is where I need to be
Right where I’m meant to be
If things change and they always do