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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 through 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irwin experiments with acrylic columns placed in the room and matching the walls, causing the illusion that they dissolve into the room. Unfortunately, some viewers conclude what?
(a) Irwin is now an interior designer.
(b) Irwin has lost his mind.
(c) Irwin is leaving the art world.
(d) Irwin has transitioned over to sculpture.

2. To Irwin, a painting's gestural integrity is unyieldingly connected to what?
(a) Its symmetry.
(b) Its emotional power.
(c) Its meaning.
(d) Its beauty.

3. Both parents found Robert a ______ to raise.
(a) Problem.
(b) Simple child.
(c) Joy.
(d) Nuisance.

4. Why does Irwin paint his dots in precise dimensions that form the allusion of a perfect square within the canvas--drawing attention away from the edges?
(a) He wants the entire dot to be visible.
(b) He does not like to use the entire canvas.
(c) He does not like painting dots.
(d) He is not pleased with the imperfect edges of his dot paintings.

5. His dissatisfaction compels him to begin an association with what Gallery, which fostered the coming of age of the modernist artist in LA in the sixties?
(a) The Ferus Gallery.
(b) Subliminal Projects Gallery.
(c) DF2 Gallery.
(d) Papillon Gallery.

Short Answer Questions

1. To bring focus to the emotional element of his work, Irwin creates a series of ____________ paintings.

2. The entrepreneur not only admires Irwin's art but also what?

3. Irwin focuses self-critique on the ______________ of the work.

4. Overton Irwin, Robert's father, ran a successful ____________________ business until he lost everything in the Depression.

5. To enhance the introspection of their processes, some of the Ferus artists become practitioners of what?

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