Couple considered is not as relevant as the things

couple considered, is not as relevant as the
things that can be learned when looking at
each one in the light of the other.
The pairing of images has a long tradition in
the history of art. Pendant paintings consist
of two pictures that are compositionally and
iconographically related as a pair but are not
attached to each other the way hinged
diptychs are. They hang or stand side by side
but separately and autonomously. The term
derives from the French phrase faire
pendant , adopted to express the idea of one
hanging or depending from the other, and
evolved into ‘pandam’ to designate the dual
nature of any disposition consisting of two
fundamentally similar art pieces but different
in detail, which both rely on each other to
make full meaning of one another.
Meaningful arguments dealing with a dual
structure of the subject matter need to
address resemblance and coincidence as
well as dissimilitude and divergence.
Correlation is always a question of
proportion: How much of ‘this’ is present in
‘that’?
The confrontation of two objects, concepts,
authors or works does not necessarily imply
an oppositional choice. When put into
practice by exemplifying exclusionary terms,
comparison might only lead to the
confirmation of previous convictions and the
enunciation of value judgements. Instead,