Group 6 Visual Arts (HL/SL)

Entry Guidance

Some prior experience of making art is recommended but curiosity about the work of artists; or fascination with the culture of art exhibitions, galleries, art museums, the built environment, visual culture or heritage, is expected.

Course Aims

Art at this level is a challenging and wide-ranging field of study as well as a way to enjoy looking at, making, and discussing art.

This course enables students to:

• Investigate past, present and emerging forms of visual art; engage in researching, discussing and evaluating art; and produce personal creative statements as a personal response.

• Understand local, national and international contexts through visual art and culture.

• Develop the skills, techniques and strategies necessary to make personal statements in traditional and new media.

• Take responsibility for making relevant contemporary art inflected by personal experience.

Course Content

There are three course components:

1. Comparative study: A comparison of artists’ works from more than one cultural context.

2. Process portfolio: A journal of research interests in techniques and processes seen in other artists' work and developed through individual experimentation.

3. Exhibition: A curated exhibition of a selected group of finished works produced during the course accompanied by a text outlining the rationale for the exhibition.

Students learn to work independently developing their own projects. They demonstrate their ability to adapt by making use of several different types of media. Their ideas are challenged and refreshed by encounters with new art from different cultures and by confronting and exploring technical possibilities.

The course culminates in an exhibition where the juxtaposition of selected works will support a student’s purpose outlined in a statement. The Process Portfolio and the Comparative Study are submitted for assessment in digital form.

Assessment Outline

HL Assessment Component Weighting

External Assessment: No examination 60%

• Part 1: Comparative study

- Analyse and compare different artworks by different artists. Submit 10-15 screens which examine and compare at least three artworks, at least two of which should be by different artists. Students submit 3-5 screens which analyse the extent their work has been influenced by the art and artists.

• Part 2: Process portfolio

- Students submit 13-25 screens which evidence their sustained experimentation, exploration, manipulation and refinement of a variety of art-making activities. Students' work must be in at least three art-making forms.

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Internal Assessment 40%

• Part 3: Exhibition

- Students submit a selection of resolved artworks. Pieces should show evidence of their technical accomplishment. Students submit a curatorial rationale (700 words), 8-11 artworks and exhibition text for each selected artwork.

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SL Assessment Component Weighting

External Assessment: No examination 60%

• Part 1: Comparative study

- Analyse and compare different artworks by different artists. Submit 10-15 screens which examine and compare at least three artworks, at least two of which should be by different artists.

• Part 2: Process portfolio

- Students submit 9-18 screens which evidence their sustained experimentation, exploration, manipulation and refinement of a variety of art-making activities. Students' work must be in at least two art-making forms.

20%

40%

Internal Assessment 40%

• Part 3: Exhibition

- Students submit a selection of resolved artworks. Pieces should show evidence of their technical accomplishment. Students submit a curatorial rationale (400 words), 4-7 artworks and exhibition text for each selected artwork.

For Further Advice

Contact Daniel Hickey, Head of Art: Daniel.Hickey@dulwich-seoul.kr

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