Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Lawrence Weschler
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Lawrence Weschler
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 142 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Robert's installations were made based on what?
(a) Funding.
(b) Time.
(c) Supplies.
(d) Locale.

2. What Irwin strives to do is create not a color field, but rather what?
(a) A lack of color field.
(b) A color palette.
(c) A minute spot of color.
(d) A field of color energy.

3. It is then that Robert realizes how unhappy he is with what?
(a) Himself.
(b) Being an artist.
(c) His work.
(d) His life.

4. He adds a thick black tape to the floor to form what?
(a) A platform.
(b) A smaller rectangle.
(c) A focal point.
(d) A barrier.

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) Papillon Gallery.
(b) DF2 Gallery.
(c) The Ferus Gallery.
(d) Subliminal Projects Gallery.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1975, he participates in ______________________ show.

3. This is a semi-transparent material used in Holland and other locales for window dressing.

4. A gallery displaying some of Irwin's work includes in his catalog commentary that, "The art is what has happened to __________" (p. 92).

5. Questions that arise within Irwin himself about his line drawings leads him to advance to what?

(see the answer key)

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