Visual Arts: IB Higher and Standard Levels

The course will provide you with the opportunity to develop your aesthetic, imaginative and creative faculties by means of studio-based practice. It will stimulate and train your visual awareness and enable you to become more aware of the visual arts in a variety of world cultures, concentrating on the European dimension.

At Higher Level and Standard Level you will produce a body of practical coursework, as well as a Research Workbook.

The Research Workbook takes the following form: a sketchbook exploring ideas related to your coursework; a notebook record of contextual studies (research into work by other artists/designers related to your own work); a journal/diary recording the development of your studio-based work.

For the first part of your course you will be teacher-directed, with a number of studio-based projects. Later you will be encouraged to develop your own projects with an emphasis on personal growth and a persistence of enquiry. You will be encouraged to take an active interest in the visual arts, to visit exhibitions on a regular basis, and to concern yourself with the role of art and design within our culture and the cultures of others.

You will be assessed by coursework exhibition. You will mount an exhibition at the College showing your strongest work, supported by your portfolio of studies and your research workbook(s). This work will be assessed by an external examiner who will also interview you with your work.

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