Practice question · True or false
A series is a set of attempts at one picture, continued until one of them succeeds.
Hints
- Ask what the other canvases are for if one of them is the answer.
- Fifteen Meules were exhibited together.
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False
Why
False, and it inverts the idea. The series is the work, and no single canvas in it carries the argument, which is why they were exhibited together. Holding the motif fixed is what makes the variable visible, and a single canvas has nothing to be visible against.
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