Visual Arts (88 total posts)

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Depressurising in March (and the end is nigh)

January 30, 2020
Greetings students! It’s March! Under pressure? If you are a second year DP Visual Arts student in a northern hemisphere school, you may be feeling pressure to complete work in the different course components, because the time for end-of-course uploads is...
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Documenting temporary artworks

December 6, 2019
Fire, Water and Decay Emma – one of my 2nd year visual arts students –  is interested in the process of decomposition and destruction by fire. She’s interested in the way things change as they end their existence, the visual qualities and the nature of...
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A Story of Cheating

November 6, 2019
In a recent visual arts workshop, we had a lot of discussions about academic honesty and how to detect plagiarism, and one of the teachers described this encounter: One of his students returned to school after the summer break with an absolutely outstanding artwork –...
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Working from Observation (“direct observation”)

October 18, 2019
In September, for many schools it’s the start of another school year, and if you are a DP visual arts student, you will be either returning for your 2nd year or starting your first. Where to Start? Of course, your teacher will probably suggest some initial directions...
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Cindy Sherman

August 12, 2019
Wow! I have just seen the Cindy Sherman Retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Click the link for a quick video of the works from the exhibition. “This major new retrospective explores the development of Sherman’s work from the mid-1970s to the...
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Why so generous? – IA predictions

July 3, 2019
(i.e. why are the marks awarded by teachers for the visual arts IA component – the Exhibition – sometimes wildly unrealistic?) A group of IA moderators were chatting about their experiences in the last examination session. One moderator posed the question: why are...