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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Robert partially attribute to growing up here in the 1940s?

2. Irwin feels he got his drive to accomplish from whom?

3. Irwin and his brother attend what church with their mother?

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

5. Does Robert claim any discomfiture in his youth?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Irwin's parents think of his art?

2. What leads Irwin from lines to dots?

3. How were cars important to Irwin and his friends?

4. How do those who grow up in this community view the world?

5. What does Robert do after leaving school?

6. Who helps Ferus stay open? How does he do this?

7. Describe Irwin's personality as a child and how this affected his parents.

8. What evidence of art was see in Irwin's childhood?

9. Describe Robert's artistic process.

10. Describe Irwin's upbringing. What happened when he decided he no longer wanted to go to church?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Robert grows discontented with his show at the Felix Landau Galleries in L.A.

Part 1) Describe Robert's early works. How does he grow discontented? How do these shows play a role in his discontent?

Part 2) To what does this discontent lead? Does Irwin benefit from this discontent? If so, how? if not, why not?

Part 3) When have you bee discontent? How did this affect you? Did this change you? If so, how? If not, why not? Was this a good experience? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Irwin is very liberal in his thinking.

Part 1) Describe Irwin's thinking. How has in upbringing influenced his liberal views? How else have his liberal views been formed?

Part 2) How do his liberal views reflect his personality? How do they also affect his art?

Part 3) What type of thinker are you? Would you consider yourself a liberal, a conservative, or somewhere in between. Why? What has influenced these views?

Essay Topic 3

Irwin's thoughts about the art world change.

Part 1) Describe Irwin's beliefs and thoughts about the art world as a young man. How were these beliefs formed? How did they affect his work?

Part 2) How did these thoughts and beliefs change throughout his career as an artist? What caused these changes? How did these changes affect his work?

Part 3) How have beliefs, as a whole, changed about the art world? How has art changed over time? What has caused these changes? Is this change good? Why or why not?

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