There is something really reductive in the way that an artist's work as they age, especially if toward the end of their life their style changes, gets presented almost inevitably as "haunting," a hundred times over if they have anything even remotely labeled mental illness or progressive loss of function. Every time this comes up it's treated as though it is a reflection of and commentary upon their condition, until that's all their late works ever seem to conjure up even for critics.
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