IB Visual Arts Syllabus

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Beginning IB Visual Arts
Welcome to IB Visual Arts. This course promises to be a very challenging and rewarding experience for those of you who can match it with the effort and time required for success. For most of you who have had previous art courses at Lovejoy, this marks an achievement. You wouldn’t be here if the art faculty didn’t feel confident that you were capable of meeting the rigorous standards that IB Visual Arts at this school demand. Understand that it is up to you to uphold the expectations that IB and Lovejoy has of you. You are Lovejoy’s representative to IB. What you need most at this point is support, guidance and some help getting started on your two-year artistic journey. It helps to understand that Mrs. Thomas will be looking for work and development in specific areas as you progress through the year. There are two primary areas of achievement that will be key to your success in this class: 1. Studio work – the artworks (both finished and unfinished) that you create at home and in the studio at LHS. 2. Investigation – the research, idea development, experiments, reflective writing and relevant preparation that you do to help support and improve your artwork. Studio work: Your Studio work will be developed and evaluated according to several key criteria. Some of them overlap and involve other criteria, and should be considered parts of a holistic approach to your work. They are: a. Understanding - This refers to the degree to which your work reflects an understanding of how one can express concepts and ideas in the visual image, as well as how well you grasp the technical and formal methods through which these can be conveyed. b. Relevance – This refers to the degree to which your work reflects or conveys personal elements (Where are YOU in the work?); the degree to which your work shows an awareness and an understanding of socio-cultural issues and concerns; and finally the degree to which your work shows evidence of well-developed, complex ideas and approaches to your given theme. c. Development – This refers to the level of development of both your ideas and your technical competence with your chosen media or mode of expression. d. Sensitivity to materials – This criterion concerns your ability to use and in some cases develop novel uses for your materials. It refers most importantly to your ability to review and modify your use of materials, so that your work shows evidence of increasingly well-informed resolutions of concepts and the ideas that can be conveyed in your work. e. Technique – This is related to both a and d above. It refers to your mastery and understanding of the media you have chosen to explore. A student in our IB art program is free to choose whatever medium he or she wishes, but they must be able to demonstrate that they have learned a great deal of the handling, potential and limits of that medium. f. Confidence – this criterion refers to the degree to which you work shows evidence of a confident, inventive and wholly personal approach to imagemaking, one that does not rely heavily on existing art, historical precedent or 1 IB 1 Beginning of Year Information – Mrs. Thomas 2010-2011

teacher guidance. g. Independence – This criterion looks at the degree to which your work shows selfdirection and use of your own judgment. Ultimately, your work must be entirely your own and should show that you arrived at the visual statement it makes on your own accord. This has a great deal to do with the above criterion f. Investigation work: Your Investigation work will be done primarily in your Investigation workbook – a hard-covered, sturdy, A4-sized sketchbook that you will make your own. It is absolutely essential that you acquire such a sketchbook within the first week of school. Please do so and bring it in to Mrs. Thomas for approval by the end of next week. Your Investigation work will be developed and evaluated according to several key criteria. Some of them overlap and involve other criteria, and should be considered parts of a holistic approach to your book. They are: a. Cultural/Contextual research – This refers to the degree to which your book shows that you analyzed, considered, compared and reflected upon art from other cultures and time periods, especially its function and significance, both within its original context and today. We do not create art in a vacuum. All art is interrelated. b. Technical/Process – this criterion references your book’s ability to display the degree to which you kept careful record of how you developed effective skills and awareness of techniques and processes that enabled you to create your studio pieces. It also refers to work in your book that shows that you developed your ability to understand and discuss the techniques and methodologies of other artists. c. Investigation – This refers to evidence in your book that you developed clear, coherent strategies for investigating the visual qualities, ideas and their contexts, and various (ie. More than one) approach to ways of formulating your art. It also examines how your book shows evidence of connections between all these things. d. Depth & Breadth – This is a difficult one to understand easily, but you’ll get used to it. It is like the above criterion c, but most specifically it refers to the degree to which your book shows evidence that your research and investigations took in a broad range of influences, ideas and inspirations that helped you to formulate a successful synthesis of these for your own work. It also looks at the degree to which you examined these thoroughly, pushing your understanding of them and helping you to infuse your work with a more informed and articulate means of expression and meaning. e. Vocabulary – This criterion examines the evidence in your book that indicates the degree to which you learned and became familiar with an effective and accurate specialist vocabulary in the visual arts. A god artist uses the proper terminology to refer to his or her work and the work of others. f. Acknowledgment of Sources – As in all your coursework in the IB, it is important that you cite the sources and origins of the work you do in this class. This criterion considers the degree to which you accurately and consistently cite the sources you use in your book. g. Presentation – This criterion looks at how you present your work in your book. It considers effective and creative writing regarding your work and the degree to 2 IB 1 Beginning of Year Information – Mrs. Thomas 2010-2011

which you demonstrate thoughtful, critical evaluations of your work. It also looks for evidence that you were discriminating in the ways that you chose your methods and approaches towards your work. h. Integration – This criterion refers to your book’s relevance to your studio work. All that you do in your book should reference your studio work. This criterion evaluates the level to which your studio work is emphatically evolved, supported, justified and explained in your book. It is imperative that this be seen as a developmental process – it should be continuously taking place as you develop your work, not simply after the fact. Your Investigation workbook is an organic work, not a scrapbook in which you paste what you’ve accomplished. It should grow and develop with your studio work and reflect that fact. In your final exam in 2012, the weighting of these criteria, the amount for which each counts, will depend upon whether you are taking High or Standard level. But for now, you should begin to acquaint yourself with them and learn to understand what each means. The more you understand them and rely upon your knowledge of them, the better you will understand Mrs. Thomas’s critiques of your work and the feedback you will receive. You will receive periodic reviews and feedback from Mrs. Thomas. They will involve direct reference to these criteria. Expectations In your first year, you will be expected to develop a familiarity and a fluency with these criteria. In addition, you will be required to develop a series of studio works based upon a theme of your choice. Mrs. Thomas’s main job will be to help guide you in the development of your ideas and help introduce you to media and techniques that might enhance your ideas. Your pace throughout the first year will be your own, but you will be expected to complete at least one major, finished studio work per month. These must be related to the theme you’ve begun to develop and all relevant investigation should accompany the creation in the workbook. Mrs. Thomas will ask for all completed artworks on the last school day of every month for review. Think of a camera. Your theme is the lens through which you approach your work. It can, of course, change and evolve (indeed, it should!) and that change and evolution should be well documented in the Investigation workbook.

Monthly work

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Every month, you will be asked to approach your theme through a different “filter” – a way of considering your theme which can help you develop new ideas regarding your overall theme. You may select from the list below to help aid you in getting your monthly projects completed:
Self (you, your identity, self image, self-esteem) or dark self (see C.G. Jung) Family or ethnic group (not necessarily yours) Science & Technology Dreams/the surreal world,/alternate reality/questioning reality Society/Public vs. Private Gender issues/ Sexual politics Capitalism/ (Free)Trade/Economic equality/Globalism Epistemology (ie. how we know what we know)/TOK Conflict/resolution/war/peace Art/History/Art History/Interpretation Origins/Beginnings/Endings/divisions in time Age/Adolescence/Biological growth/evolution Location Power Symbols/Systems of Meaning/Codes Kitsch/Taste/Fashion Story/Narrative • Humor/dark humor/ • Shock/Horror/Ugliness Any other suitable (and approved by Mrs. Thomas) filter you might want to consider • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Take your theme (for instance, feminism) and look at it through the filter of one of these topics (say, Kitsch/Taste). Your month’s project will involve developing an approach, an idea, experimenting with media and techniques that compliment that idea, researching the idea and eventually creating an artwork that embodies your idea. So you might end up creating a Jeff Koons-like piece with a feminist message.

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IB Visual Arts Year 1 – List of Studio work accomplished Month Work Title(s) Media Used Describe briefly September

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May Crop this down and paste it inside the back cover of your sketchbook. Keep it updated. It will help you keep track of what you have done and what remains to be done. 5 IB 1 Beginning of Year Information – Mrs. Thomas 2010-2011

Studio etiquette The art studio is your artistic home in the school. It is a state-of-the-art facility purpose built for your two-year creative journey. A great deal of your work will be done at home but you will also be working in the studio and using the materials and tools kept here. Please keep in mind that other students need to use these as well. Therefore, if we all abide by certain expectations in the studio, we’ll all benefit from it and from each other’s work: • • • • • • • All work and materials should be stored away. All tools (especially brushes) should be properly cleaned and stored away. All tables and flat surfaces should be kept free of paint, varnishes, dust, clay, ink and other working materials. Food and drink are off limits Messes on the floor (both wet and dry) should be swept or mopped up immediately and certainly before leaving the studio. The patio is for our use, but should always be kept clear of objects and tools, free from paint and spray marks. Sinks must be properly used – paint residue, refuse and traces of materials must not be permitted to collect in the basins. No volatile or oil-based solvents may be washed down the sinks in any quantity. All sediments (clay, plaster, etc) and acrylics must be washed up in the sinks in the main art studio area with the sediment trap. The sink in the darkroom should not be used. Mrs. Thomas’s office should be kept tidy and treated with respect (conferences often take place in the office during class). Respect for other students’ work is imperative. Additional expectations may be introduced as the year progresses.

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Deadlines Arguably, the most important skill you will learn in your early work in the IB Diploma program is meeting deadlines. You will be expected to produce 18-23 finished works of art and some 300 pages of investigative research in the workbook over the two year period. The only way you will be able to meet these requirements is by meeting the deadlines set up by Mrs. Thomas. IWB’s will be checked every other Thursday. There will be no way to improve an IWB grade after the fact, so make sure you are ready for each IWB check and review the IWB requirements each time until you know them by heart.

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