Current Unit: Comparative Study

E. (HL Only) Connect to your own work

12 marks

What is the assessment criteria looking for?

an analysis and reflection on the outcomes of the comparative study investigation and on how this has influenced your own development as an artist, identifying connections between one or more of the selected works and your own art-making processes and practices.

At the highest level of achievement, the work analyses and reflects upon the outcomes of the investigation consistently and appropriately. You effectively consider your own development, making informed and meaningful connections to your own art-making practice.

What does that mean?

Higher Level students need to produce an additional 3-5 slides that explore the connections between their research and the subsequent work that they produce. This could be a single piece, a way of working or a way of looking at a subject. Your task is to take all of your learning and process it in your own way, for yourself as an artist. You need to show a depth of connection that you have to the work of these artists.

You are not being assessed on the quality of your outcome, instead you are being assessed for the quality of your development and connections. What do you know now and how will you/ do you/ have you worked as a result of looking at these artists?

What might it mean when it says:

...As a result of this investigation ..

...Your own art-making processes..

...Practices...

...Own development as an artist..

How can I be inspired?

Technically- Media and the use of the media

Conceptually - The idea behind the work and what the artist is saying about their idea.

Compositionally - The subject matter and the way it is treated. The use of elements of art and principles of design.

Do not describe the practical process of your art making, rather consider how the creative process connects to the artworks studied.

ie When viewing the scene, after investigating the post-impressionistic work of Manet, I reconsidered how I captured light and movement in quick short movements. I used to think that the marks were careless and quick but now I realise that the immediacy of the marks changes the way that I as an artist approach the subject- I can not over work the paint to make it "perfect", I need to leave the essence of a moment in my brushwork too.

Coming back to the idea of Blooms Taxonomy, you're looking for a 'resolution' where you summarise your exploration into these artists. It is about the connections that you make and the way that you explore them.

EXAMINER SAID

"The best responses made insightful links, whether conceptual, stylistic or technical and sometimes a combination of all three. These candidates outlined the outcomes of their investigation clearly. However, there is a tendency to fill these final screens with descriptions of process and idea development that are unconnected to the selected art works. Sometimes there were clear visual links between art works, but the candidate failed to make these explicit; for example, by using annotation to show that they had understood the nature of the relationships. Many candidates do not understand the connections task. The task is not to compare their art making with the selected art works, it is to consider how the comparative study has influenced the candidate’s own development by identifying connections between one or more of the selected works. Few were able to reflect on the developmental aspect of the connection.

Higher-level candidates often:

• Do not consider the outcome of the investigation in a meaningful way as an opportunity to reflect on what they have learnt from the investigation or as a way to make links with their art making.

• Describe their own art work without making connections with the selected artworks

• Describe the practical process of their art making, rather than consider how the creative process connects to the artworks studied.

• Do not situate artists in the context of their own artistic development.

• Struggle to find any association with their own art making and hence make superficial comments

• Are unable to translate conceptual aspects into their practice as artists. This is because they have not analysed the artworks beyond their personal impression so their conceptual understanding is weak.

• List similarities and differences in a simplistic manner.

• Make a pastiche or even a copy of one of the artworks. Imitation is not the intention of this component; the task is to reflect on creative connections.

• There must be visual evidence of the candidate’s art making to support the candidates text on the connections screens."

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