Welcome Students
WELCOME TO DP VISUAL ARTS
Your journey begins here.
Congratulations on choosing to study Visual Arts! This is an amazing course that has evolved into a very contemporary approach to art-making and thinking for diploma students. Visual Arts is primarily about making art, but it is also about understanding context, communicating, and making connections. It is a challenging course, no doubt, one of the harder subjects to score a 7, but not impossible! Visual Arts permeate our society in so many ways, and the creative thinking that you will engage in on this course will serve you not only as an artist but as a human being.
Your teacher will guide you through the learning and skills the course requires. They are your main reference point and advisor. This website functions as additional support and an alternative to a textbook to accompany your journey through the course. On this site you can find answers to all your questions about content, assessment, practical examples, student work, as well as activities, creative strategies, real-world artist projects, and much much more!
On this page below, we explain how to navigate the site, where to find stuff etc. Take some time to explore the menu, and find the resources that you need to understand the nuts and bolts of the course, expand your creative thinking, and enjoy growing into your own visual language.
P.S. Everything is written by us, and we advise that you write everything yourself too. Using your brain and expressing your own ideas is far more interesting and beneficial.
What is the course about?
What will I do? What are the expectations, the learning goals, and how does assessment work? Find out all about IB Visual Arts
What is IB Visual Arts?
Whether you are starting your first school year as an IB student or have recently transferred schools and switched subjects, we have built this page to explore the tenets of the artistic process, to introduce...
Course Requirements
An overview of the assessment goals and tasks- everything you need to know about the course requirements.
Organisation of the Visual Arts Site
Top level drop down menu includes:
Ebook - this is your “online textbook.” It guides you through the visual arts course, breaks down each component with explanations and clear examples. SL and HL content are clearly identified and assessment requirements made evident. Although attention to detail is granular, we aim to make the content lively, interesting and VISUAL, and to keep the bigger picture of the artistic adventure always present.
Activities - a library of activities to support your art-making when you need a fresh idea, an injection of inspiration, or maybe you are feeling a little stuck. Choose a creative challenge from the Art Seed Bank (provocations) or try out a new creative strategy from the 🛠️Creative Strategies🛠️ Toolkit, take a spark from another artist's way of working in ✨Sparks✨ (from artists) series
Assessment -your go-to place for assessment rubrics for all tasks.
Gallery - view a collection of student work, past and present. This gallery will continue to grow with new examples after each exam session.
DP Essentials - you will find information about DP core requirements: TOK, EE and CAS, with supporting materials.
Notes on top image:
Chlorosis (Love sick), 1994, Ink, gouache, and acrylic on twenty-four sheets of paper
"South African artist Marlene Dumas based the twenty–four portraits comprising Chlorosis on Polaroid snapshots of people she knows and on newspaper clippings of strangers. Thin, exquisite washes of color suggest apparitions or psychic projections of internal states. The title of the work comes from the Greek word for light green, and describes an anemic disease marked by a characteristic green skin tone. Sometimes referred to as the virgin's disease, chlorosis was considered a sickness caused by the intense suffering provoked by unrequited love"- MOMA
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