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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Irwin grows discontented with his show at ____________ in Los Angeles.
(a) Los Angeles Center for Digital Art.
(b) Couturier Gallery.
(c) The Felix Landau Gallery.
(d) Bert Green Fine Art Gallery.

2. Irwin's ultimate goal is to create a work that is unified and consistent in what?
(a) Color and value.
(b) Emphasis and unity.
(c) Form and balance.
(d) Color and physical terms.

3. At Ferus, Robert feels the need to do what?
(a) Make friends.
(b) Hide.
(c) Catch up.
(d) Leave the art world.

4. Irwin's mother confirms that her son does not like to think of what?
(a) School.
(b) Others.
(c) Himself.
(d) Unpleasant things.

5. How does Robert wind up in Europe?
(a) He attends college in Paris.
(b) He visits friends.
(c) He is transferred to the regular Army due to an injury.
(d) He runs out of money in Rome.

6. To enhance the introspection of their processes, some of the Ferus artists become practitioners of what?
(a) Zen Buddhism.
(b) Palm reading.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Zen and other Asian philosophies.

7. Although many art critics disagree, Irwin connects his love of what to his later emergence as an artist--especially in the realm of folk art?
(a) School.
(b) Cars.
(c) Girls.
(d) Music.

8. Robert was a ______________ child who could perceive danger and cope with it.
(a) Happy.
(b) Wild.
(c) Strange.
(d) Cautious.

9. To what does Robert partially attribute to growing up here in the 1940s?
(a) His dark tan.
(b) His interest in the arts.
(c) His love of the ocean.
(d) His easy sense of well-being.

10. Irwin's views on feminism and race relations were always what?
(a) Ahead of his times.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Strange.
(d) Prejudice.

11. Robert's dissatisfaction with Jepson then leads him to the Chouinard Art Institute, where he focuses on what?
(a) Dreamy watercolors.
(b) Abstract oil paintings.
(c) Ceramic sculpture.
(d) Stone carvings.

12. What engendered the solitary life that Irwin came to experience is what?
(a) Seen in his father's personality.
(b) An unknown.
(c) Noticeable in his mother.
(d) Due to his family's lack of understanding.

13. Irwin focuses self-critique on the ______________ of the work.
(a) Form.
(b) Balance.
(c) Movement.
(d) Unity.

14. By age _____________, Robert returns to Los Angeles.
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Twenty-one.

15. After graduating from high school, Robert's buddies convince him to join them in doing what?
(a) Going to college.
(b) Signing up for the military.
(c) Studying art.
(d) Traveling the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although Irwin probably was not familiar with whose philosophy of "The Rotation Method," the philosopher's conclusion that fertility is created through self-limitation shines through in his work?

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

3. Irwin takes his lead from master artist _____________, who in creating a multitude of paintings always uses the same subjects--a set of bottles.

4. Where did Robert Irwin grow up?

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?

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