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The perfect IB VISUAL ART STUDENT

"**In art, one complicates, then... one simplifies"**

This is a introduction to the perfect example of a student that could achieve a 7 in this subject. Here I am presenting my favorite students in my teaching years and I hope you could become like them. You will see examples of the 3 different areas of the subject. Investigation, Exploration and Context. These will take you in a suitable way to your personal production. Its important to consider always that art is not a linear learning process it jumps constantly through exploration, context, investigation and the other way around. With this presentation you will see that "bright ideas are never the first ones" and that final pieces are like a "iceberg" we only see the tip of your investigation to conclude a final piece.

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Our lesson will be divided in 3 types

INVESTIGATION : You will research around your personal concerns. Issues from different fields of knowledge related to your theme. Art from different times and cultures with similar approaches to yours, Analysis of art, understanding of the construction of a personal language, constructive critics of the world around you, deconstruction and construction of your ideas, unsolved questions, beliefs and appealing desire to know more.

EXPLORATION: You will explore drawing from observation, ideas, contexts, techniques, ways of constructing your ideas, try and error, mistakes, finding advantages in the disadvantages, styles, art movements, art history, you will find new influences, you will find artists with the same needs as yours, issues from other fields finding connections to your ideas.

PRODUCTION: You will start your own art production of final pieces. You will improve your drawing from observation skills, yout techniques, different mediums to create images, painting, sculpture, photography writting. This is the stage were your ideas will develop and you will find a way to express and comunicate your concerns about yourself and the world. Your production should improve gradually with the months, you must challenge yourself to keep on evolving your techniques and images, with each new final piece you should feel proud of yourself and your ideas, You will analyse your own process and progress and you will learn from your mistakes. At the end of two years time we should be able to see the improvements when we see all of your pieces together.

Try to imagine youself as these 3 artist. Start planning your art production considering an investigation, an exploration and context of ideas. Challenge yourself to produce like the masters.