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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 does not like to use the entire canvas.
(b) He is not pleased with the imperfect edges of his dot paintings.
(c) He does not like painting dots.
(d) He wants the entire dot to be visible.

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

3. 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) The trees are art.
(b) The string is the art.
(c) The light is art.
(d) There is no art.

4. With what does Ferus present Irwin?
(a) His first experience in a gallery setting.
(b) His first experience with contemporaries whose work is superior to his own.
(c) His first experience with contemporaries whose work is inferior to his own.
(d) His first experience with contemporaries with more art training.

5. It was in whose honor that Irwin wrote the unproduced screenplay The Green and the White?
(a) Joan Templeman.
(b) Joan Tewkesbury.
(c) Joan Tipograph.
(d) Joan Tisch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Maurice Tuchman, curator of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, enlists the cooperation of some __________________ corporate institutions to place artists in an Art and Technology program.

2. Irwin's mother is upset and tries to convince him that bad things will come his way if he does what?

3. At a 1971 display at UCLA's museum, Irwin redoes a utility stairway with what?

4. He cut short his time in Europe by doing 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?

(see the answer key)

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