VISUAL ARTS MYP (Year 4&5) ART A
Course Description:
The arts subject area in the MYP years gives students the opportunity to develop as artists as well as learning about the arts through conceptual understandings essential to the discipline. Learning takes place within contexts relevant to the student, whether personal, local, national, international or globally significant. Throughout the MYP, arts students are required to use knowledge, develop skills, think creatively and respond to a variety of artworks. The MYP arts subject area, and specifically the MYP discipline of visual arts, provides a solid foundation for the Diploma Program visual arts course.
The goals of IB Visual Arts at A.I.S are for students to explore and critically respond to: the aesthetic qualities of visual arts, the relationship between form and meaning, the social and cultural functions of visual arts, and the socio‐cultural and historical contexts of other cultures. Students explore ways of communicating through visual and written means. Students make artistic choices about how to most effectively communicate knowledge and understanding. Students make art through a process of investigation, thinking critically and experimenting with techniques. At its heart, IB Visual Arts offers an avenue for students to deeply experiment with art making processes, explore and make connections to the world of artists, and create contextual, conceptual, and personally meaningful works of art.
Media Exploration/Artivism:
1 semester
Process Portfolio:
1 semester
Comparative Study:
1 Semester
The arts subject area in the MYP years gives students the opportunity to develop as artists as well as learning about the arts through conceptual understandings essential to the discipline. Learning takes place within contexts relevant to the student, whether personal, local, national, international or globally significant. Throughout the MYP, arts students are required to use knowledge, develop skills, think creatively and respond to a variety of artworks. The MYP arts subject area, and specifically the MYP discipline of visual arts, provides a solid foundation for the Diploma Program visual arts course.
The goals of IB Visual Arts at A.I.S are for students to explore and critically respond to: the aesthetic qualities of visual arts, the relationship between form and meaning, the social and cultural functions of visual arts, and the socio‐cultural and historical contexts of other cultures. Students explore ways of communicating through visual and written means. Students make artistic choices about how to most effectively communicate knowledge and understanding. Students make art through a process of investigation, thinking critically and experimenting with techniques. At its heart, IB Visual Arts offers an avenue for students to deeply experiment with art making processes, explore and make connections to the world of artists, and create contextual, conceptual, and personally meaningful works of art.
Media Exploration/Artivism:
1 semester
- Analyzing works of art that focus on social justice, social change or improvement of unfavorable conditions
- Recognizing Identities and relationships both personal and global
Process Portfolio:
1 semester
- Explore several media from this list: watercolor, mixed media, acrylic, charcoal, colored pencil, marker, pencil, etc.
- Research and test various techniques
- Research and reflect on various artists and artworks within the chosen media
- Create a piece of art using intended media
Comparative Study:
1 Semester
- Learn about different artists from different countries and/or cultures
- Analyze art works using the elements and principles of art
- Determine and discuss function and purpose of works of art
- Determine and discuss cultural significance of works of art
- Compare works of art to each other and student’s own work
- Create artwork inspired by different artists
Final course grades come from a “best-fit” score in each of the categories listed above. These scores are added together and then converted on this grade scale:
Formative Assessments are assessments for learning, so they are very important for students to complete! They are the basis for feedback, reflection, and improvement on the road to summative assessments. Examples include:
- Answering questions, reflecting, researching, sketching, planning, developing ideas, etc.
- Preliminary work; written or visual
- Planning sheets/journal/ written response/visual and written annotation
- Media and technique explorations
- Informal critiques (group or individual)
- Final pieces of art (Drawing, painting, design, 3-d form)
- Final reflections
- Comparative Study
- Process Portfolio
- Exhibition
- Formal critiques