Art is a bridge over and between cultures-religions-languages-countries, The IB Visual Arts course is a 2 years enriching journey into the world of creating, understanding, and presenting Art. This journey educates for deep, creative, and varied thinking, and encourages general artistic growth as well as personal artistic development. Art students are required to produce a portfolio and an ongoing “journal workbook” of ideas, thoughts, sketches, studies, and investigations – anything that supports informs develops, and illustrates the studio work through a contextual, visual, and critical investigation. This document is most valuable when we come to examine the depth of the process. The IB Visual Art program is an engagement package of Theoretical practice, Art-making practice, and Curatorial practice that are related and linked to each other. This is an exciting journey for life!

The core syllabus will be composed of 3 parts:

Visual Art in Context (A comparative study 20% External)

Visual Art Process (A process portfolio 40% External)

Presenting Visual Art (An exhibition with a written rationale 40% Internal)

Aims

· Investigating and analyzing past, present, and emerging forms of visual arts

· Developing an understanding of visual arts, local and international

· Responding confidently in a visual and creative way to personal and cultural experiences

· Developing skills, methods, approaches, and sensitivity while creating art

· Developing independency and responsibility in order to get effective results