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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Between ___________ and 1970, Irwin's work can be chartered by time and focused progression.
(a) 1957.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1950.

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

3. His mother, like most other mothers, loved Robert's childhood drawings, but did the family focus on art or visit museums?
(a) Yes, sometimes.
(b) Yes, rarely.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, frequently.

4. The three men discover they all have an interest in what?
(a) The elements of art and design.
(b) Art and science.
(c) Inventions and discoveries.
(d) Man's sense of his own environment and a curiosity to learn how two radically different disciplines can interact within that environment.

5. Irwin displays his line drawings at Ferus and at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York. He attempts to adjust what to duplicate the conditions of his studio?
(a) The light and room color and configuration.
(b) The sounds in the room.
(c) The room temperature.
(d) The lighting in the room.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Irwin not make art in the Mojave?

2. In 1970, the young curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York invites the controversial Robert Irwin to do what?

3. Through his ongoing process, Irwin ultimately concludes that __________________ is the best possible element to establish gestural integrity and one with the least amount of possibility for literal association.

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

5. The genesis of Irwin's artistry is _____________.

(see the answer key)

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