B- Critical Investigation (6 points)

Wording for Criteria B: To what extent does the portfolio demonstrate: The students critical investigation of artist, artworks and artistic genres, communicating a growing awareness of how this investigation influences and impacts upon their own developing art-making practices and intentions.

Assessment Clarification: Students must not try to address this criterion by reusing content from their comparative study component or work from their extended essay. However, it could be another work by the same artist.

Look at relevant artists

Explore artworks relevant to your own art making! This could be in terms of medium, style or technique. Make it critical rather than biographical ( we don't need to know about Van Gogh's ear).  Deconstruct the work, pick it apart, and think about why it is interesting to you. How has it influenced your ideas/process/ development? It is very helpful to observe how other artists develop ideas through material (making) and conceptual (thinking) processes.

How does this artist influence my work?

Answer the following prompts either in your visual arts journal (then take a photo of your journal page and place it into your Process Portfolio) or directly onto a slide in your Process Portfolio.  Include relevant photos of the artwork you are critically investigating.  Include proper citations for the artwork on your screen and also in your works cited slide.  This can be an artist that has already inspired a piece of your work that is complete, or a piece that you have plans to complete.

• Why did you look at this artist, what interests you about her work?

• Have the ideas or concepts explored been of particular interest to you, why?

• Have the techniques or materials used by this artist influenced you and how?

• Has the artist's style impacted your work in any way?

• How do you feel you have responded to this artist's influence in your own work?

Visual Analysis Process

1. First Reaction - do you like it? Does it remind you of something?

2. Description - describe it to someone who is blind

3. Formal Analysis

Colors

Values

Media used

Composition

Mood/emotion

4. Interpretation- Personal thoughts

5. Evaluation - Based upon what you have observed already, give your opinion of the artwork. You MUST give reasons. E.g.: "Franz Marc has created an effective expressive painting. The hot colors and lively brush marks he has used add to the overall feeling of energy and excitement he is trying to create."