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Group 6: Visual Arts

6th Form

Course Description

Visual Arts continually create new possibilities and can challenge traditional boundaries. This is evident both in the way we make art and in the way we understand what artists from around the world do. Theory and practice in visual arts are dynamic, ever changing and connect many areas of study and human experience through individual and collaborative production and interpretation.

 

The Visual Arts course aims to develop creative and imaginative skills using a wide variety of techniques and fine art processes. Students will be given the opportunity to work independently and collaboratively, developing new and existing skills throughout the duration of the course.

 

Course Content

Throughout the course students will:
• develop the skills and techniques of investigation—both visual and written
• relate art to its cultural and historical contexts
• explore art concepts
• explore art elements
• develop and use the processes of art criticism and analysis
• develop confidence and expertise in the use of various media
• extend their knowledge of design
• share their work with an audience through displays and exhibitions or presentations
• extend individual investigation to inform practical work 
• make connections between ideas and practice—both their own and others’.
• Investigation workbooks

This work will take the form of Studio Work and the Investigation Workbook.

 

Studio Work

These are the outcomes that will have been investigated and fully developed in the Investigation Workbook, and will vary depending on the area studied. It will be expected that Studio Work will take the form of a wide variety of different media and processes appropriate to intentions.

 

Investigation Workbook

You will develop skills and techniques of creative investigation in the IWB, in both visual and written formats. The IWB will be used as a sketchbook to analyse art in cultural and historical contexts, and make links to ideas.  Studio work must clearly link to the investigation undertaken in the IWB.

 

Assessment

Option A  

 

Studio Work    

60%  

 

External assessment

The  student prepares a selection of his or her studio work in the form of   an exhibition. This is externally assessed by a visiting examiner following   an interview with the student about the work.

HLA12-18 outcomes   SLA 8-12 outcomes

 

Investigation Workbook    

40%  

 

Internal assessment

The student presents selected pages of his or her investigation workbooks   that have been produced during the course. This selection is internally   assessed by the teacher and externally moderated by the IBO at the end of the course.

HLA 25-30 pages of the IWB   SLA 15-20 pages of the IWB

 

 

Option B    

 

Investigation Workbook    

60%  

 

External assessment

The student presents selected pages of his or her investigation workbooks   that have been produced during the course. This selection is externally   assessed by a visiting examiner following an interview with the student.

HLB 35-40 pages of the IWB   SLB 25-30 pages of the IWB

 

Studio Work    

40%  

 

Internal assessment

The student presents a selection of his or her studio work. This selection   is internally assessed by the teacher and externally moderated by the IBO at the end of the course.

HLA 8-12 outcomes SLA 6-8 outcomes