Assessment objectives:

Having completed the visual artist course at SL or HL, students will be expected to:

• Assessment Objective 1: demonstrate knowledge and understanding of specified content

a. identify various contexts in which the visual arts can be created and presented

b. describe artwork from different contexts, and identify the ideas, conventions and techniques employed by the art makers

c. recognise the skills, techniques, media, forms and processes associated with the visual arts.

d. present work, using appropriate visual arts language, as appropriate to intentions

• Assessment Objective 2: demonstrate application and analysis of knowledge and understanding

a. express concepts, ideas and meaning through visual communication

b. analyse artworks from a variety of different contexts. 

c. apply knowledge and understanding of skills, techniques, media, form and processes related to art making

• Assessment Objective 3:

a. critically analyse and discuss artworks created by themselves and others and articulate an informed personalised response.  

b. formulate personal intentions for the planning, development and making of artwork that consider how meaning can be conveyed to an audience. 

c. demonstrate the use of critical reflection to highlight success and failure in order to progress work 

d. evaluate how and why art-making evolves and justify the choices made in their own visual practice

• Assessment Objective 4:

a. experiment with different media, materials and techniques in art-making

b. make appropriate choices in the selection of images, media, materials and techniques in art making. 

c. demonstrate technical proficiency in the use and application of skills, media, images, forms and processes.

d. produce a body of resolved and unresolved artwork as appropriate to intentions.