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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. How do critics and viewers find the disc displays?

2. ___________ years after the Whitney opening, Irwin is busy with multiple proposals for projects for cities and universities.

3. As science comes to what realization, it will come to rely once again on art?

4. Critics do not understand the display, referring to it as what?

5. When Irwin is told that Sartre dropped everything to learn about this philosophy, what did Irwin do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Irwin see this display?

3. What are some of Irwin's views regarding this philosophy?

4. Describe Irwin's scrim projects.

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

6. How does the desert become important to Irwin?

7. What is Irwin doing three years after the Whitney opening? Why?

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

9. From where do non-art invitations come?

10. What do critics and viewers think of his work? What does he think of their opinions?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Irwin spends time in the desert.

Part 1) Describe Irwin's time in the desert. Why does he decide to spend time in the desert? How is this decision related to his feelings about his art?

Part 2) How does Irwin benefit from this time in the desert? How does it affect his art? How do his feelings while he is in the desert reflect his personality?

Part 3) Describe a place you have gone that give you a sense of peace or renewed energy. Why did this place have this kind of power? Have you returned to this place? Why or why not? Would you like to return to this place? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Critics have a difficult time pinning Irwin to one style.

Part 1) Describe the various styles to which Irwin had been temporarily pinned. How does his work reflect each of these styles?

Part 2) Why is it so difficult to pin Irwin to one style? Does Irwin want to be pinned? Why or why not? Why do critics want to pin him to one style?

Part 3) How important are various styles of art? Is it necessary for one to create a specific style of art in a specific genre and medium? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Irwin grows bored.

Part 1) Of what does Irwin grow bored? Why? What doe she think about this boredom? How does this boredom affect him? Is this good? Why or why not?

Part 2) Do you believe many artists grow tired of their style or medium? Why or why not? How might most artists deal with boredom or burn-out? Why do you believe this?

Part 3) When are you bored? How do you deal with boredom? Do you see boredom as something positive? Why or why not?

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