The popular confusion between genius and madness is clearer than ever in the figure of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851). Although an academic painter in his beginnings, Turner slowly but unstoppably evolved towards a free, atmospheric style, sometimes even outlining abstraction, which was misunderstood and rejected by the same critics who had admired him for decades. The apparent chaos that filled his last works was criticized for being considered the work of a lunatic. It is said that even Queen Victoria refused to bestow a knighthood on him -an honour given to many lesser artists- because she thought that Mister
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