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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. 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 space.
(b) The canvas.
(c) The artist.
(d) The viewer.

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

3. Irwin leaves others to interpret while he contemplates what?
(a) Rebuilding a car.
(b) Moving back to Europe.
(c) Ending his career as an artist.
(d) Working on his marriage.

4. How do young artists view Irwin?
(a) They view him as a celebrity.
(b) They see him as an artist to mimic.
(c) They look up to him as a theorist and ideological mentor.
(d) They view him as just another contemporary artist.

5. Later during his disc period, Irwin is able to work with plastic discs, which provide what?
(a) A safer work environment.
(b) Ease of transport.
(c) The added element of translucence.
(d) Weightlessness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irwin asks himself, "How does one paint a painting without ___________?" (p. 87).

2. 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?

3. What three elements are equally positive?

4. A second way Irwin deals with imperfect edges is to do what to the canvas?

5. To Irwin, a painting's gestural integrity is unyieldingly connected to what?

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