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| @id | the:SerialVariation |
| type | Art, Art criticism, Art history, Concept, contextual analysis, Resource, Visual Analysis, Visual Arts |
| broader | Conceptual Analysis, Criticism, Interpretation, visual art term |
| definition | An artistic method in which a body of work is developed through systematic variation of parameters across a sequence of related pieces, generating meaning through accumulation and difference. |
| editorial note | Distinct from Serial Development in that variation does not imply directional progression or refinement. The series generates meaning laterally — through accumulation of difference within an established visual language — rather than through improvement toward a goal. See also: Serial Development. |
| inScheme | Watercolor Criticism Scheme |
| label | Serial variation |
| scope note | Applies to practices where individual works function both independently and as elements within a larger investigative sequence, as in Judd, LeWitt, or Monet's series paintings. |
| skos:altLabel | Serial practice, Systematic series |
| skos:exactMatch | Serial_art |