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IA Crit D: Understanding of Artistic Context HL
This page looks at the role of understanding context in the HL only Selected Resolved Artworks, and clarifies and breaks down what context means. Artistic context encompasses all of the various elements...
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IA Crit C: Technical Resolution
This criterion for the Resolved Artworks (Internal Assessment) is the same for both HL and SL and refers to the skill and manipulation of materials and formal qualities. This can be a difficult criterion...
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IA Crit B: Conceptual Realization
This criterion measures the synthesis of concept and form in the Resolved Artworks (Internal Assessment). What is the relationship between the ideas driving the work and the realization of the artwork?...
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IA Crit A: Coherence
This page looks at criterion A, Coherence of body of artworks Internal Assessment HL and Internal Assessment SL. Although there is no longer an exhibition requirement and students present only a digitally...
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Bridging Artworks
Ultimately, you’ll be producing a number of resolved artworks to include in your Visual Arts submission. Standard and Higher Level students alike should aim to make more than the required number of artworks...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Group 6 Grade Descriptors
These descriptors refer to all subjects in Group 6 and are not specific to Visual Arts only. They apply to all the art forms included in group 6: Dance, Music, Film, Theatre, and of course Visual Arts....
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Learning to Connect to the Art-World
This page is aimed at pre-IB learning, introducing key art-world concepts as well as language and lenses for looking at art. Observing, analyzing, and researching artists and artworks are common in many...
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Why do Research?
How do we develop investigation and research skills that will enrich art making? If you feel passionate, or at least curious about what you are researching, then motivation and the desire to dig deeper...
Outgoing Course (Last Exams 2026)
Introducing Techniques and Processes
As there are no specifications as to which techniques within the Art Making Forms Requirements are taught in IB Art, the teacher is able to draw on his or her personal strengths and artistic background....
New Course (First Exams 2027)
Art Making Forms in the Inquiry Portfolio
SL and HL students work with (at least two) art-making forms in the Inquiry Portfolio In the new Visual Arts curriculum, there is a minimum requirement of more than one art-making form to be addressed...