John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778. National Gallery of Art, Ferdinand Lammot Belin Fund A painting is quite different from television or the movies, where a plot unfolds over time. It's just one image, frozen, unmoving. Yet, sometimes artists have exciting stories to tell. Let's read about Brook Watson's adventure with a shark and see if what they say is true -- that a picture is worth a thousand words.... Copyright © 2000 National Gallery of Art