IB VISUAL ART

  Part 1 (SL and HL): Comparative study External assessment 20% Why assess a comparative study? Both SL and HL students need to understand the intricate relationship between theory and practice. The course encourages students to critically investigate the work of other artists and allow the work to inform their own art-making practice. This task gives students the opportunity to elaborate, extrapolate and present a comparative study of three works by at least two artists from different cultural contexts that they have investigated as a part of their art-making practice. HL students are further required to articulate the connections between the work examined in the comparative study and their own art-making, giving them the chance to think about how theory is related to practice. Core syllabus areas related to the task The following core syllabus areas are addressed in the comparative study assessment task. The term “artworks” is used here generically and could refer to a ...

Edward hopper process of work - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENHPE8kZcf8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpUBxbxQj1k Formal analysis of artworks.  Links - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM2MOyonDsY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckh_GOmkdx4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QM-DfhrNv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr0NYU8HQZ0 Looking at the image ( photograph)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENHPE8kZcf8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AVNhTi9pzM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9AiJWk5QdU Conceptual analysis  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baUJTGZTOvU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlbLycvTD7k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhfFBbVtFg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atHQpANmHCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9neybpOvjaQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E8f64yj1Jk Context of artwork https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aUFB9hQncQ&feature=youtu.be

Comparative study guidance Criteria A - Formal analysis Analysing an Image Format  What is happening in the image?  Write down your first feelings about the artworks.  What do you think about it?  Basic facts  • What is its title?  • Who made it (artist name)?  • What is made of (medium used)?  Context and intention  • Where was it made?  • What else was going on at the time the artwork was made? (other artist, other art movements, technological innovations like photo , oil paint, digital media, religious and cultural influence)  • Why was it made?  • Who was it made for?( commissioned/ paid)  • Consider the present context.  • Why was this work selected to be exhibited?  • Who selected it?  • Why is it shown in this way?  Details-  Does it look like something you know or recognise? ..........................................................................