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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Overton Irwin, Robert's father, ran a successful ____________________ business until he lost everything in the Depression.
(a) Construction.
(b) Flooring.
(c) Heating and air conditioning.
(d) Plumbing.
2. To what does Robert partially attribute to growing up here in the 1940s?
(a) His love of the ocean.
(b) His interest in the arts.
(c) His dark tan.
(d) His easy sense of well-being.
3. His mother, like most other mothers, loved Robert's childhood drawings, but did the family focus on art or visit museums?
(a) Yes, frequently.
(b) Yes, rarely.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, sometimes.
4. Does Robert claim any discomfiture in his youth?
(a) No.
(b) Yes, very little.
(c) Yes, some.
(d) Yes, a great deal.
5. What is L.A.'s funky, avant-garde community of artists?
(a) The Felix Gallery.
(b) The Ferris Gallery.
(c) The Furmann Gallery.
(d) The Ferus Gallery.
Short Answer Questions
1. After staring at his line paintings for hours and days and weeks, what eventually sets in?
2. How much of an effect do the repercussions from World War II have upon Irwin and his buddies?
3. To enhance the introspection of their processes, some of the Ferus artists become practitioners of what?
4. A second way Irwin deals with imperfect edges is to do what to the canvas?
5. Robert's dissatisfaction with Jepson then leads him to the Chouinard Art Institute, where he focuses on what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who helps Ferus stay open? How does he do this?
2. How are Irwin's relationships with others affected? Why?
3. Describe Irwin's personality as a child and how this affected his parents.
4. How does Irwin end up in the military?
5. What is the mystery that remains regarding Robert Irwin?
6. What happens when Irwin grows discontented with his show at the Felix Landau Gallery in Los Angeles?
7. What did Irwin love as a teen?
8. What does Robert do after leaving school?
9. Who is Joan Tewkesbury?
10. Describe Robert's artistic process.
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