IB Art Studio Work:
Visisal Arts & Photography Students must Produce 3 finished artworks suitable for exhibit with a minimum size of 12 x 18 inches unless one of your summer works is part of a series (3 or more). Use the included themes (on page 14 of the Handbook) as a starting point to develop your own topics for each studio piece. You should start to consider ways in which these works can connect since a cohesive body of work is expected for the final IB exam submission. Work to your strengths, but don’t limit yourself. These studio pieces and your Journal are due on the first day we return to school.
Art-Making Forms – HL must complete at least 1 from each of the 3 options (3 total)
SL must complete work from at least 2 of the 3 options (3 total)
ADDITIONAL IB PHOTOGRAPHY REQUIREMENTS: You must collect a range of film and digital images to edit down to more complete portfolio prints, just as artists collect a number of sketches and media experiments to get to more finished drawings or paintings. Use the guide below to help build your creative library of images to complete your final portfolio projects. We will also continue to use these for future assignments. Images do not have to be shot in any particular order, but please organize in your Google Drive.
Studio Requirements: 3 projects @ 50 pts = 150 pts (60%) Refer to the Studio Criteria on the Syllabus
Art-Making Forms – HL must complete at least 1 from each of the 3 options (3 total)
SL must complete work from at least 2 of the 3 options (3 total)
- Option 1: Two-Dimensional Forms
- Drawing (graphite, chalk, pastel, charcoal, ink, color pencil)
- Painting (acrylic, oil, watercolor)
- Printmaking (woodcut, linocut, collograph, monotype/print, screenprint, drypoint)
- Collage (paper, fabric, photographs, drawings, transfers, bookmaking)
- Option 2: Three-Dimensional Forms
- Ceramics (clay, porcelain, terracotta, stoneware, earthenware, air-dry, sculpey)
- Sculpture (cardboard, wood, plastic, metal, paper-mache, plaster, found objects)
- Fashion (wearable art, jewelry, clothing, head pieces, neck pieces, hand bags)
- Architecture (models of miniature structures or environments)
- Installation (site-specific art, environmental art, murals)
- Textiles (embroidery, fabric, string, knotting, weaving, fibers)
- Option 3: Lens-based and Screen-based Forms
- Photography (film, digital)
- Video (moving frames, projections)
- Animation (stop-action, illustration, graphic novel, story board)
- Graphic Design (print design, product design, digital painting, vector graphics)
ADDITIONAL IB PHOTOGRAPHY REQUIREMENTS: You must collect a range of film and digital images to edit down to more complete portfolio prints, just as artists collect a number of sketches and media experiments to get to more finished drawings or paintings. Use the guide below to help build your creative library of images to complete your final portfolio projects. We will also continue to use these for future assignments. Images do not have to be shot in any particular order, but please organize in your Google Drive.
- At least 75 portraits (1 roll of film + 50 digital files)
- At least 75 architecture (1 roll of film + 50 digital files)
- At least 75 nature (1 roll of film + 50 digital files)
- At least 75 abstract (1 roll of film + 50 digital files)
- At least 100 images of your choice (film or digital)
Studio Requirements: 3 projects @ 50 pts = 150 pts (60%) Refer to the Studio Criteria on the Syllabus
IB Art Visual Arts Journal:
Complete 20 pages in your Journal - CITE ALL YOUR SOURCES!!! - VISIT http://easybib.org/
- Autobiography: 2 pages begin your Journal by introducting yourself. Focus on important aspects of your identity. Explain all the things that make you, you: your individual interests, important life events, beliefs etc.. This can reveal important qualities about yourself that will help fuel your studio pieces.
- Earliest Art Experience: 1 page reflecting on the moment you realized that art/photo was important to you. Explain how you have seen yourself grow as an artist over the years. What are your particular strengths/weaknesses? What are your goals and how do you anticipate achieving them?
- Gallery Visit: 2 pages highlighting RELEVANT artworks in a gallery space of your choice. You must explain the connection to your own studio work. Use photos of specific works and/or provide sketches. See the Gallery Visits page for further instructions.
- Studio Investigations: 15 pages for all 3 studio projects (5 separate investigations for each project)
- Present your brainstorming, mind-mapping, sketching, and planning that connects to your ideas, personal interests, themes and overall concepts.
- Show evidence of well- developed, complex ideas and approaches to your given theme.
- Review and modify your use of materials as they are connected to your message, so that your work shows evidence of increasingly well-informed resolutions of concepts and the ideas that can be conveyed in your work.
- Explain your life experiences, your unique understandings, and specific influences relevant to what you’re creating and why – be honest and open to explore both inside yourself and the outside world.
- Research and experiment with a wide range of techniques– use the specialist artist vocabulary connected to the media! - Use the Weebly Glossary @ http://atleearts.weebly.com/art-glossary.html
- Include photos of your experiments and take several progress photos as you're working.
- Create thumbnail sketches depicting compositional ideas. You should be working through ideas multiple times, and describe your idea development. Reference prior investigation.
- Collect information about new techniques you would like to try in class. Determine what you need to learn, and ask for help so we can figure out how to do it. There are lots of great resources out there, you just need to hunt for them. Follow the Student Art Guide on Pinterest
- Always work directly on the page whenever possible – include comments/explanations.
- Explore the visual qualities and expressive capabilities of each art-making form you discover.
- What media, processes and techniques have been used in each of the artworks?
- What aspects of the processes and techniques are conventional or innovative?
- How have formal qualities, such as the elements and principles of design, been used and to what effect (or affect)?
- What motifs, signs and symbols have been used in the works and what do these communicate to the audience?
- This is an opportunity for you to get technical about your craft - photographers include contact sheets, talk about lighting, camera settings - include every aspect of your decision making
- Find artists/art movements that inspire new ideas or methods of creating and complete a formal analysis of their work including a break down of the elements and principles of design - How have they been used and to what effect?
- Compare/Contrast art works by an artist you are currently interested in visually or conceptually.
- Look at the life of an artist and explore the relationship between their personal and professional life. What artists did they admire, and is that influence evident in the work. How did the time in which the artist lived influence the work created?
- Compare/Contrast the work of different artists interested in the same subject matter, or technique.
- Compare/Contrast your work to that of another artists.
- Explain the media, processes and techniques that have been used in each of the artworks and what aspects are conventional or innovative.
- What motifs, signs and symbols have been used in the works and what do these communicate to the audience?
- Reflect on visits to galleries, artist’s studios or exhibitions – they should always be related to the work you are producing.
- Follow the instructions on the Art Analysis page for an in-depth formal critique.
- Find historic information about how and when specific processes have evolved.
- Research into cross-curricular and cross-cultural themes as they connect to your studio work. Does another passion fuel your work? Science, psychology, math, English, sports, music, history, etc... If so provide images and information related to this area you wish to use to inform your work.
- Demonstrate awareness and an understanding of socio-cultural issues and concerns.
- Describe what you learn about other cultures including shared beliefs, values, interests, attitudes, products or patterns of behavior – this can be on an international, national, regional, or local level.
- Compare/Contrast art work within a single culture or different culture, then compare your works to those cultural works.
- What are the social, historical, political and intellectual contexts of each of the works explored?
- How do the artworks reflect aspects of the world in which they were created? Explain how works were relevant to the time period and reflect on its specific function and significance
- What experiences of the world does the audience bring to their interpretation and appreciation of the artworks?
- Which critical methodologies are most appropriate to analyse, interpret and evaluate the artworks?
- How has exploring these contexts influenced your own art-making?
- Photograph works in progress, reflect on what was done, has your idea been altered as you have worked on it? If so how?
- Reflect on the relative success of different pieces of work and on their place in your development as an artist.
- Reflect upon your developing work with particular focus on how the intended meaning and purpose are communicated.
- Identify opportunities for further development in the work being undertaken.
- Critique your work relation to your stated intentions and consider how the work might impact an audience once presented for public display.
TOTAL SUMMER EVALUATION = 250pts
Any student that fails to complete the summer assignments will not be able to continue in the IB Visual Arts course.
NOTE: HL YEAR TWO JOURNAL PAGES
Please complete 3 Journal pages in place of the Autobiography and Earliest Art Experience outlined above.
Reflections from Year One (1-2 pages)
Now is the time to sit back and think about what you have accomplished in your first year. Tell me about your overall experience in the course. In what ways have you grown? What were some of your greatest accomplishments? What things do you wish had gone differently or you had done better? What could I have done to improve this experience for you?
Goals for Year Two (1-2 pages)
Describe the direction you see your work moving in as it pertains to both media and concepts. Are there areas you want to focus on for improvements? What do you identify as your individual strengths? What things do you hope will be different about your second year? What are the things you are looking forward to and what are your biggest concerns?
Reflections from Year One (1-2 pages)
Now is the time to sit back and think about what you have accomplished in your first year. Tell me about your overall experience in the course. In what ways have you grown? What were some of your greatest accomplishments? What things do you wish had gone differently or you had done better? What could I have done to improve this experience for you?
Goals for Year Two (1-2 pages)
Describe the direction you see your work moving in as it pertains to both media and concepts. Are there areas you want to focus on for improvements? What do you identify as your individual strengths? What things do you hope will be different about your second year? What are the things you are looking forward to and what are your biggest concerns?
