Practice question · True or false
Two works of identical size are necessarily at the same scale as one another.
Hints
- Ask what scale is a relation to.
- The same object in a domestic room and in a hangar.
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False
Why
False, and it is the whole content of the distinction. Scale is a relation — to the room, to the neighbouring works, to the viewer's body — so an identical object is monumental in a domestic interior and negligible in a hangar, without a millimetre changing anywhere.
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