Baccalauréat international · IB Diploma
Visual Arts · SL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course. · Dossiers, échantillons et documents de programme pour ce cours.
Course units and learning goals · Unités de cours et objectifs d'apprentissage
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme. · Ces leçons abordent des objectifs de cours sélectionnés. Vérifiez les lacunes restantes en couverture ; ce matériel ne constitue pas un programme d'entraînement complet.
Comparative study · Visual analysis, context and comparison
- Analyse formal qualities, function and cultural significance
- Compare at least three artworks by at least two artists with reliable attribution
- composition
- Organization of visual elements within an artwork.
- formal qualities
- Visible and material properties such as line, colour, form and space.
Process portfolio · Material inquiry and iterative development
- Experiment with media and document development
- Evaluate how research, trials and reflection change artistic intentions
- iteration
- A repeated trial informed by the result of an earlier one.
- material investigation
- Purposeful exploration of a medium's possibilities and limits.
Exhibition · Resolved artworks and curatorial rationale
- Resolve works that communicate coherent intentions
- Plan an exhibition and justify selection, arrangement and audience relationship
- curatorial rationale
- An explanation of selection and arrangement for an exhibition.
- resolved artwork
- An artwork developed to communicate its intended meaning.
Preparing for this qualification · Préparation à cette qualification
- Current SL/HL: comparative study 20%, process portfolio 40%, exhibition 40%. No written examination. First assessment 2027 replaces these with art-making inquiries portfolio, SL connections study/HL artist project and resolved artworks.
- Current SL exhibition selects 4–7 works; HL 8–11. SL process portfolio 9–18 screens, HL 13–25; comparative study 10–15 screens plus 3–5 HL screens linking own practice. Use school-selected artists and licensed/credited images.
Teaching coverage still needed · Couverture pédagogique encore nécessaire
- Credited real artist/artwork studies, art-making-form guide requirements and actual portfolios/exhibition remain; 2027 course needs separate package.
- Reviewed runtime bank remains unavailable; no practice registry promotion.
Specifications and sample documents · Spécifications et documents d'échantillon
- Visual Arts — Subject brief · 2016 ↗
First assessment: 2016
- Visual Arts — Subject brief · 2027 ↗
First assessment: 2027
Course materials · Matériel pédagogique
- Study notes · Notes de cours →
- Revision questions · Questions de révision →
- Teaching guidance · Guide pédagogique · Teacher access · Accès enseignant →
- Teacher diagnostics · Diagnostique enseignant · Teacher access · Accès enseignant →
- Supervised task guidance · Guide pour la tâche supervisée · Teacher access · Accès enseignant →
Course preparation · Préparation du cours
Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course. · Les documents sont disponibles. Les notes spécifiques au conseil, les évaluations et la pratique interactive des anciens sujets ne sont pas encore disponibles pour tous les cours.
Lessons · Leçons →