Congratulations on having chosen to take Visual Art as part of your Diploma. You are very, very wise and clever.
It is important that you begin your ‘creative journey’ during the summer so that you arrive at school in August with your ‘artistic engine’ already in a high gear.
Task 1: Visual Journal
Those of you already at ABA will be given a ‘concertina’ sketchbook to work in over the summer. We will go over how to use these in our session during the last week of school. There are examples of images of these sketchbooks posted above - click on an image to see full picture..
NB: If you cannot attend the introduction session in June 2018 and do not have access to a concertina sketchbook any sketchbook with good quality paper is ok.
Your job is to fill a sketchbook over the course of your summer. You do not have to have access to lots of art equipment to do this. You should aim to create a visual journal of your summer. Work in your book each day of the vacation.. Use any materials that are to hand
(collage, biro, coffee, tea, are as valid as using specific art media).
If you are lucky enough to be near art museums or artists record your experience of these. If you are ‘stuck’ simply produce observation drawings of things/people/places around you. What you choose to put in your book communicates something about you as an artist.
Task 2: “Art cannot be taught but can be learnt”
This task asks you to start to think about what we aim to achieve over the next two years and ask questions about why Visual Art classes exists in High Schools and beyond. This is similar to the way you will be asked to think in your Theory Of Knowledge course. ( doing some research about the TOK course is about would be useful as well - http://sohowdoweknow.weebly.com
Review the texts contained in the webpage file called “texts for IB1 first task”. What claims are made for the study of Art in the texts? Do all the texts agree? If they differ, how do they differ? What are the implications of the ideas in the text?
You can either write this in digital form if you already have a website, or in the sketchbook if you do not ( if you are new to ABA, and you would like to, then it is very simple to set up a weebly or Wix website - both are free if you select the domain names that end 'weebly.com' or ;wix.com'. DO NOT CHOOSE the options you pay for, there is no need).
Here is an example of a response to this task from last year: https://omardabbous.wixsite.com/artbyomar/art-cannot-be-taught-but-can-be-lea
Here is an example of pre-IB work a grade 10 student did last year: http://miraalkabir.wixsite.com/artportfolio/pre-ib
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Introduction Session June 2018
Our goals for this session are simple:-
As you grow and develop as an artist you may find other forms for keeping your journal, physical or digital. Eventually you may feel that you can work best by updating the 'pages' or 'slides' of your Process Portfolio. The form the journal takes is not as important as the content.
'Students should be encouraged to find the most appropriate ways of recording their development and have free choice in deciding what form the visual arts journal should take.' Visual art Subject Guide
The keeping of a journal ( an on going document of your thinking, experimenting and artistic journey) is a requirement. It should include:
Today we will start with two simple tasks:
- For you to understand the summer tasks.
- For you to understand what is required for the three components that are eventually submitted for assessment for the IBDP Visual Arts course.
- For you to begin the Visual Arts Journal that will 'feed' or 'fuel' your artistic development throughout the course.
As you grow and develop as an artist you may find other forms for keeping your journal, physical or digital. Eventually you may feel that you can work best by updating the 'pages' or 'slides' of your Process Portfolio. The form the journal takes is not as important as the content.
'Students should be encouraged to find the most appropriate ways of recording their development and have free choice in deciding what form the visual arts journal should take.' Visual art Subject Guide
The keeping of a journal ( an on going document of your thinking, experimenting and artistic journey) is a requirement. It should include:
- the development of art-making skills and techniques
- experiments with media and technologies
- the investigation of your own art development in the context of related art genres
- personal reflections
- responses to first-hand observations
- creative ideas for exploration and development
- evaluations of art practices and art-making experiences
- responses to diverse stimuli and to artists and their works, especially in relation to your own art
- detailed evaluations and critical analysis
- records of valued feedback received
- challenges faced and achievements.
Today we will start with two simple tasks:
- Observation Drawing/Painting
- Collage - theme = "seeing through"