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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. Why does Irwin not make art in the Mojave?

2. Irwin, through his journey of self-discovery, has learned to do what?

3. Irwin feels so self-indulgent in his own work that ___________________ as a means in which he can serve society as a whole.

4. Irwin intends that viewers will experience what?

5. Over the last __________ years, Irwin had connected his thinking process to the art objects he was making.

Short Essay Questions

1. What leads Irwin to painting discs?

2. Where does Irwin submit proposals?

3. What do viewers think of this display?

4. By what is Irwin now intrigued? How does this affect his work?

5. With what do the men experiment? Describe these experiments.

6. Compare Irwin's work from before 1970 to his work after 1970.

7. Describe Irwin's display at the Whitney Retrospective.

8. Describe Irwin's installation in the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art in 1975.

9. Describe Irwin's scrim projects.

10. With what is Irwin concerned at this time?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Robert Irwin was born in L.A.

Part 1) Describe Irwin's life in L.A. How does his personality reflect his West Coast upbringing? What other aspects of his life influence him in adulthood? How? Why?

Part 2) How does this West Coast personality also clash and contrast aspects of his work throughout his life? Why?

Part 3) Describe your own upbringing. How has it influenced you and your interests? How might it influence you throughout the rest of your life?

Essay Topic 2

Irwin begins making dot paintings.

Part 1) Describe these dot paintings. What leads to the creation of these dot paintings? How are the steps leading to these paintings important?

Part 2) What does Irwin do after these dot paintings? Why? How do these dot paintings lead to new works?

Part 3) How do actions and decisions related to your hobbies lead you along new paths? How is this beneficial for you?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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