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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The time spent during this period causes what to end?
(a) His marriage.
(b) His art career.
(c) His interest in making art.
(d) Many friendships.

2. In a 1976 display in Venice, he merely outlines with string a spot of tree-filtered light on the ground. What do some think?
(a) There is no art.
(b) The string is the art.
(c) The light is art.
(d) The trees are art.

3. Irwin asks himself, "How does one paint a painting without ___________?" (p. 87).
(a) A linear mark.
(b) Color.
(c) Texture.
(d) Shape.

4. A gallery displaying some of Irwin's work includes in his catalog commentary that, "The art is what has happened to __________" (p. 92).
(a) The viewer.
(b) The canvas.
(c) The artist.
(d) The space.

5. By painstakingly creating red then ___________ dots, all closely aligned, on a ultra-white surface, Irwin is able to create energy.
(a) Green.
(b) Orange.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Another critic, William Wilson of the LA Times, reported that Irwin's "paintings _____________."

3. Robert installs a project in a museum to make what case?

4. What Irwin strives to do is create not a color field, but rather what?

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?

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