Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each element of a wall label to what it fixes for the viewer.
- Title
- Date
- Medium
- Dimensions
- What the work is a response to
- What the surface is and how it should be read
- How large the work is in a catalogue that cannot show it
- What the work asks to be taken as being about
Hints
- One of the four is the only reliable information a reader of a catalogue has about scale.
- One turns the same canvas into a prediction or a memorial.
Show the answer
- Title → What the work asks to be taken as being about
- Date → What the work is a response to
- Medium → What the surface is and how it should be read
- Dimensions → How large the work is in a catalogue that cannot show it
Why
The date is the one with the most leverage and the least attention. The same painting dated either side of an event is a warning or an elegy, and nothing in the paint decides which, which is why the label is part of the reading apparatus rather than administrative furniture beside it.
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