International Baccalaureate Higher Level Studio Art – 2^nd year

Program:  Arts and Communications

CBEDS Title: Art & Design

Path:  Visual Arts

Prerequisites:  Must have had 1st year I.B.H.L. Studio Art or I.B.S.L. Art History, with a grade of B or higher or teacher recommendation.

Length:  This is a two-hour course, the 2nd year of two years.

Lab Fee:  $40 per semester

Course Description:

Part A:  Studio Work

In this course artistic understanding and expression is learned through drawing, painting, collage, photography, sculpture, and computer graphics or video.

1.     A minimum of sixteen finished pieces are to be completed in the second year.  In creating these pieces they are to concentrate on a single theme exploring its depth.

2.     May participate in figure drawing lessons and produce 2 figurative studies in relation with theme.

Part B:  Research Workbook

1.     Students are to focus on a theme or area of study as it relates to the artwork they are producing and explore its depth and breadth.

2.     The work is to show personal growth and therefore cannot be created at the end but continually throughout the course.

3.     There is to be no editing.

4.     False starts and weaker work are expected at the beginning.

5.     All sources must be acknowledged

 

Course Aims

Second year, the students will create/learn:

1.     An In-depth study of a single theme and its variations creating a minimum of sixteen works of art.  Some of the Previous Themes have been:

a.     Music and Visual Self Expression

b.     Consumerism and the female

c.     Insanity in Children

d.     Positive Homosexuality

e.     Power of the Feminine in Fashion

f.       Feminine Abuse

g.     The Divine in nature

h.     Street Art as a Political Message

i.       Personality Types in Masks

j.       Dysfunctional Personalities

k.     Graphic Novel – Detective

l.       Graphic Novel – Heroine

m.    Through the Eyes of a Child

n.     Visual Representation of ___________’s Music

2.     In Visual Communication the students will express, through conscious and subconscious means, a specific idea and its various corollaries in the creation of a minimum of sixteen pieces for the concentration section.

3.     In Problem Solving and Creating Unique Art, the students will push themselves and help others in group critiques to try new solutions, different techniques, other mediums and develop a personal style.

4.     In Appreciation of World Art History and Aesthetics the students will show a use of multi-cultural concepts and techniques in the projects they are working on.

 

VAPA Standards	Nogales
A1.0, A2.0, A4.0 & A5.0	A. Student Outcomes in Studio Work (60% of work - by the end of the two years, each student is to have completed a minimum of thirty pieces of art) Students will:
A1.2, A1.3, A1.6 & A1.7	Demonstrate an inquiring attitude towards a variety of visual phenomenon, which are expressed through persistent research in the creation of art.
A2.1 & A2.2	Demonstrate the ability to solve various technical and conceptual problems in the creation of unique art pieces.
A2.1, A2.4, A2.5 & A5.2	Use their emotions in an imaginative and creative approach to subjects demonstrating effective communication through the use of both conscious and unconscious means of visual language.
A2.4, A2.5 & A4.4	Make personal, social, political, and aesthetic statements
A2.1 & A2.2	Explore the expressive potential, gain technical skill and push the limits of various mediums.
A2.1 & A2.2	Understand the use of Color Theory, Design and Aesthetics.
A4.6	Develop aesthetic, imaginative and creative faculties in a unique personal approach to producing quality artwork.
A1.2, A1.3, A2.3, A4.6 & A5.3	Select and present a one-person show of their artwork.
A1.0, A3.0, A4.0 & A5.0	B. Student Outcomes in Research Workbooks (40% of work - they are required to keep a Research Workbook on their studies in art history) Students will:
A1.1, A1.4, A1.8 & A4.2	Demonstrate in clear verbal terms with graphics how the personal research has led to an understanding of the topics and concepts.
A1.1, A1.4, A1.8 & A4.2	Analyze critically the formal, technical and aesthetic qualities of the art work studied using an informed vocabulary.
A3.3, A4.1 & A4.3	Gain visual awareness and understanding of the arts of various cultures
A3.1, A3.2, A3.3 & A3.4, A4.3 & A5.2	Critically relate artwork to its cultural, religious, economic, social and political contexts to gain meaning and significance.
A1.1, A1.4, A1.8, A4.2, A4.5, A5.1  A5.4	The workbooks should contain; analytical research discovery of new images and ideas personal interpretation of what has been learned experiments in various media that the research has generated comments on required visits to museums and galleries evidence of teacher to student and student to student dialogue connections to other disciplines (i.e. Math, Science & English)