Y12 - Y13 (for Alejandra!)

End of Y12 & Summer task –

including choosing a theme for Year 13

The work that you do over the next months will define your outcome in IB Art. There will be a book check on Friday June 8^th so that I can give you suggestions/ ideas for sources & artists. The final deadline is after the Summer holidays (see list in this booklet of all work that must be completed by then).

Obviously it is important to make sure that all Y12 studio and RWB work is completed to the best of your ability before the start of next year (if you have not already done so) Most of your time in IB Art has already gone by now – there is absolutely no catching up time in Y13 (less than 2 terms left when we come back to school!) See the sheet on improving your RWBs for further information about how to improve your grade.

Your next major RWB tasks (40 plus sides with final check in September) are:

• Research and documentation for your 2 Venice Studio Projects (8 sides +)

• Research and development of personal theme for Summer/Y13 (22 sides +)

• Y12/13 Research Workbook Critical & Contextual Research Project (10 sides +)

The research and documentation of the Venice projects is mostly explained in the previous handout sheets. Make sure that you have adequate experiments, studies, plans, notes, additional artist research (not just dead Venetians), evaluations etc for both projects

Choosing your theme: DON’T CONFUSE A MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE WITH A ‘THEME’.

‘Fashion’ or ‘Painting’ are mediums or techniques not themes!

Themes explored by recent Y13 IB Art students at SGBIS have included:

‘The Passage of Time’ ‘Women as Heroes’ ‘Chinese History’ ‘Ideas of Perfection’

‘Exploitation/Consumerism’ ‘Cities’ ‘Fear & Phobias’ ‘Memory’ ‘Art & Music’

‘Theatre & Performance’ ‘Twins’ ‘The Power of Books’ ‘The Urban Environment’

‘Concepts of Nationality’ ‘Links Between Fine Art & Fashion’ ‘Corruption & Authority’

Not all of these students started out with such specific themes – many of these themes evolved from the students’ interests and research. Don’t start thinking ‘Right I’m going to do ‘Pain’ so I’ll make a sculpture of a screaming man’ or whatever. Let the studio work evolve properly – the results will be stronger, more original and more exciting.

The sooner you start exploring and researching possible themes the sooner I can give you ideas and artists to feed your work. Your research needs to be varied and powerfully visual. You will not get another chance like this coming summer to produce drawings, paintings, photographs and other experimentation to feed your Y13 work. Imagine how it is going to feel sitting round the ‘BIG TABLE’ with the rest of the class in September if your research isn’t the best that you could do!

http://web1.ibo.org.uk/gallery/ Is the IB Art Gallery – you should begin everything by browsing this site.

You must get out and visit at least 2 exhibitions this summer. Don’t just grab a couple of well known artists off the internet! In your critical writing/studies/sketches find links between what you see/discover and your own evolving ideas/theme – for example: what made you choose to examine a particular painting?

Produce tons of visual research for your theme: your own photographs, experiments, drawings, paintings (from direct observation as well as from secondary sources) Don’t spend much time planning final pieces – this is the crucial gathering and inspiration phase. Don’t just use pencil. Get yourself some paints, pastels, ink, charcoal etc