titanium white

noun

|Updated on: 25 Jun 2018

Definition of titanium white

: titanium dioxide; also : a brilliant white lead-free pigment consisting of titanium dioxide often together with barium sulfate and zinc oxide

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My Princeton painting classes took me to museums, to Philip Guston’s cadmium red, ivory black, and titanium white cigar-smoking Klansmen and John Currin’s skinny, huge breasted naked white women the color of supermarket peach flesh.

— aaron gilbreath, Longreads, "Old In Art School," 20 June 2018

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