Turner's Venice.(J.M.W. Turner)

World and I | April 1, 2004| | Copyright

Scarlet Cheng, based in Los Angeles, is a contributing editor to the Arts section of The World & I.

The first exhibition ever devoted to J.M.W. Turner's memorable evocations of Venice shows the artist going through a revolution in painting, even while his chosen genre remained the stuff of convention.

Charles Dickens, that most precise and concrete of writers, fell into a reverie upon remembering his visit to Venice. He wrote in 1844, "I have, many and many a time, thought since of this strange Dream upon the water: half-wondering if it lie there yet, and if ...

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