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VISUAL ARTS


 * "To us art is an adventure into an unknown world which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk". Mark Rotko**

What can you expect from art? How do you think this lesson takes place? What do you imagine of yourself in two years time when you have your exhibition?

The impulse to make art is common to all people. From earliest times, human beings have displayed a fundamental need to create, and to communicate personal and cultural meaning through art.

Visual arts continually open up new possibilities and challenge traditional boundaries. This is evident both in the way we make art and in the way we understand what artists from around the world do. Theory and practice in visual arts are dynamic and ever-changing, and connect many areas of study and human experience through individual and collaborative production and interpretation.

The Diploma Programme visual arts course enables students to engage in both practical exploration and artistic production, and in independent contextual, visual and critical investigation. The course is designed to enable students to study visual arts in higher education and also welcomes those students who seek life enrichment through visual arts.

Quality work in visual arts can be produced by students at both HL and SL. The aims and assessment objectives are the same for visual arts students at both HL and SL. Through a variety of teaching approaches, all students are encouraged to develop their creative and critical abilities and to enhance their knowledge, appreciation and enjoyment of visual arts.

The course content for HL and SL may be the same. However, due to the different amount of time available for each, students at HL have the opportunity to develop ideas and skills, and to produce a larger body of work, or work of greater depth. In order to reflect this, the assessment criteria are differentiated according to option and level. There need be no direct relationship between the number of works produced, the time spent on each, and the quality achieved: a high level of performance at either HL or SL can be achieved in both a large and small body of work.

Syllabus > creative process for each final piece. > There should be self investigation of art from different times and cultures. > Independent context concerning your ideas, visual and critical investigation > and reflection visual and written. Visits to cultural events, museums, festival, drama festival, film festival, music festivals, movies, books and anything that could be an influence to you >> the useof materials and mediums. practical exploration will take place, >> creating your own strategy to create artistic production. >> || 40% || 40% ||
 * External assessment tasks || SL || HL ||
 * **Task 1: Comparative study**
 * Students analyse and compare different artworks by different artists. This independent critical and contextual investigation explores artworks, objects and artifacts from differing cultural contexts.
 * || 20% || 20% ||
 * At SL: Compare at least 3 different artworks, by at least 2 different artists, with commentary over 10–15 pages. || At HL: As SL plus a reflection on the extent to which their work and practices have been influenced by any of the art/artists examined (3–5 pages). ||^  ||^   ||
 * **Task 2: Process portfolio visual arts journal**
 * Students submit carefully selected materials which evidence their experimentation, exploration, manipulation and refinement of a variety of visual arts activities during the two-year course.
 * Students will work in a visual arts journal were they should demostrate their
 * || 40% || 40% ||
 * At SL: 9–18 pages. The submitted work should be in at least two different art-making forms. || At HL: 13–25 pages. The submitted work should be in at least three different art-making forms. ||^  ||^   ||
 * Internal assessment task || SL || HL ||
 * **Task 3: Exhibition**
 * Students submit for assessment a selection of resolved artworks from their exhibition. The selected pieces should show evidence of their technical accomplishment during the visual arts course and an understanding of the use of materials, ideas and practices appropriate to visual communication.
 * The poduction should reflect personal concerns, original ideas and skills in
 * At SL: 4–7 pieces with exhibition text for each. A curatorial rationale (400 words maximum). || At HL: 8–11 pieces with exhibition text for each. A curatorial rationale (700 words maximum) ||^  ||^   ||



How much time do you think you need to achieve a final piece? Plan 18 final piece during your IB programme, montly planner? What type of cultura events do you enjoy?

Tip: Try to link your everyday life experience to this subject.