IB Visual Art is made up of 2 levels:
Standard Level (SL) which is 1 year &
Highler Level (HL) which is 2 years.
Below you will find information about the course and individual components.
The IB describes the difference between SL & HL in the following terms:
"The assessment tasks require HL students to reflect on how their own work has been influenced by exposure to other artists and for them to experiment in greater depth with additional art-making media, techniques and forms. HL students are encouraged to produce a larger body of resolved works and to demonstrate a deeper consideration of how their resolved works communicate with a potential viewer."
Analyse and compare different artworks by different artists. This independent critical and contextual investigation explores artworks, objects and artifacts from differing cultural contexts.
Submit for assessment a selection of resolved artworks from their exhibition. The selected pieces should show evidence of their technical accomplishment during the visual arts course and an understanding of the use of materials, ideas and practices appropriate to visual communication.
Submit carefully selected materials, which evidence experimentation, exploration, manipulation and refinement of a variety of visual arts activities during the 1 or 2 year course.