Studio+Guide

= = =**In studio work the examiner is looking for evidence of:**=

• **experimentation** and the **development** of ideas in artwork leading to successful resolution • the selection and use of a **variety of artistic and cultural strategies, media and styles** • an **ongoing process** of review, modification and refinement • inventive approaches to experimentation and exploration using diverse strategies, ideas, techniques and media • the ability to select and employ materials appropriately leading to coherent use of materials • the development of a sense of self in relation to other people, places and times • cultural and historical sources being used appropriately to inform and construct artwork • knowledge of how to make informed reflective, critical judgments, and use them when evaluating their own studio work (HLA/SLA) or the ability to pose questions and work towards solving their own problems (HLB/SLB).


 * Understanding the IB Art Critera for STUDIO WORK:**

1. An initial idea becomes more complex as you mold it through **research, reflection,** and **analysis** of your own thought process. 2. You should be able to explain your compositional choices through the **elements and principles of art**, or if not, how you've approached your composition on your own terms (you rebel!)
 * Understanding Artistic Expression:**

1. **Personal:** Your art is comes from you. You create it for you. Not for me. Not for IB. For you. 2. **Cultural:** Your body of work must draw on the cultures that you embrace. Your culture, your host country's culture, the culture of countries that you've visited and been influenced by, and your 'third culture'.
 * Personal relevance, cultural and historical awareness**
 * 3. Historical:** We stand on the shoulders of giants. No artist has not been influenced by those that have come before them. Which giants of art (or literature, or science, anything) are you clambering up to stand upon?

Take risks! Try new things! Be sure to document it in your IWB.
 * Development of ideas and strategies for expression**

Be able to discuss how your use of materials was successful or not, and how you've progressed.
 * Sensitivity to materials and their use**

In whatever medium you choose, learn to be great at it. In order to do this you can: 1. **Get guidance.** From me, from other art teachers, from your friends, from the internet, from books. 2. **Practice.** How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice Practice. If you spend 10 thousand hours on anything, you will be an expert.
 * Technical Competence**

1. **Confidence**: Your work is awesome. Explain it like you're Andy Warhol (but not like Jeff Koons, he's a bit pretentious). 2. **Inventiveness:** I can't give you a roadmap for this one. You have to take your work in a direction that surprises even me.
 * Confidence and Inventiveness**

If you can **use materials sensitively** with **technical competence,** in a **confident and inventive** way, then you are positioned nicely to **extend your personal boundaries independently.**
 * Self direction and reflective judgement**