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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. To bring focus to the emotional element of his work, Irwin creates a series of ____________ paintings.
(a) Small.
(b) Colorful.
(c) Large.
(d) Odd.

2. Irwin wants to make art of what?
(a) The viewer.
(b) The air.
(c) The peripheral, the transitory.
(d) The walls.

3. Leider felt that Irwin created the painting to be seen how?
(a) In a way that allows all viewers to have their own interpretation.
(b) As a mentally-ill person might see life.
(c) As a magnificent work of art.
(d) As he designed it to be seen or to not be seen at all.

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

5. Another critic, William Wilson of the LA Times, reported that Irwin's "paintings _____________."
(a) Dance.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Sing.
(d) Blush.

Short Answer Questions

1. In viewing Irwin's dots, what happened to distinguished art critic Philip Leider?

2. Blum regrets that some of the gallery's artists fail to move _______________ where they could be successful.

3. Irwin attributes his success at this gallery, at least in part, to what?

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

5. Irwin is badgered by the seeming arbitrariness of the __________ created in the dots painting in their confinement to the canvas.

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