Welcome to IB Visual Arts 1.
Welcome to the 2014 - 2015 Art year at Al Bateen. You will grow in many ways this year, and your Art and forms of visual expression will increase in skill and meaning.
Please keep your Visual Arts Journal with you at home and at school so that you may make notes in it regularly when you are inspired by other artists, styles, and/or experiences. Remember to read through your entire Visual Art Handbook and do not hesitate to ask us if you have any questions!
This is the key to your success in this class so make yourself familiar with the expectations! We are looking forward to working with each of you and helping to make this year pivotal in your artistic and personal development. Enjoy the adventure!
Please keep your Visual Arts Journal with you at home and at school so that you may make notes in it regularly when you are inspired by other artists, styles, and/or experiences. Remember to read through your entire Visual Art Handbook and do not hesitate to ask us if you have any questions!
This is the key to your success in this class so make yourself familiar with the expectations! We are looking forward to working with each of you and helping to make this year pivotal in your artistic and personal development. Enjoy the adventure!
Week 1-Lesson 1
Week 1 - Lesson 2
Trip to the Art Hub on Tuesday September 9th.
Abu Dhabi Art Hub
The first artist community to be established in the United Arab Emirates.
LIVE CREATE EXHIBIT
Focused on emerging and established visual artists from across the world,
Abu Dhabi Art Hub serves as a platform for interaction and cross-cultural artistic exchanges
between national, regional and international artists.
In addition to operating artist in residency programs for foreign artists, through Friends of Art Hub and Adopt-an-Artist sponsorships, emerging Emirati artists are eligible to participate in residency programs overseas.
The Abu Dhabi Art Hub compound is a purpose-built structure housing:
The first artist community to be established in the United Arab Emirates.
LIVE CREATE EXHIBIT
Focused on emerging and established visual artists from across the world,
Abu Dhabi Art Hub serves as a platform for interaction and cross-cultural artistic exchanges
between national, regional and international artists.
In addition to operating artist in residency programs for foreign artists, through Friends of Art Hub and Adopt-an-Artist sponsorships, emerging Emirati artists are eligible to participate in residency programs overseas.
The Abu Dhabi Art Hub compound is a purpose-built structure housing:
- Private, fully furnished accommodation for artists in residence. Each self-catering apartment includes a large, partitioned work area providing ample space to create.
- Additional areas conducive to creativity include:
- Artist Studios.
- Workshop Facilities.
- Multiple galleries affording convenient exhibition opportunities.
- Large Main Hall for the staging of events.
- Sixteen offices available lease to art related businesses.
- Art Hub Café.
- Dedicated Parking Area.
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Year 12's take a look at our Pinterest.
Now that you are all signed up to our Pinterest board I want you over the weekend to PIN at least two things each that relate to our theme.
PIN PIN PIN! :)
PIN PIN PIN! :)
Outstanding work dealing with theme of identity.
http://www.studentartguide.com/featured/top-in-world-self-portraiture
Week 5 - Comparative
Week 5 & 6 Practical and Assessment
Week 7 - Photography Project Given & Continued work on Francis Bacon Style Painting
Week 7 - Process Portfolio
What Colour Are You?
http://www.allthetests.com/personality-tests-character-quizzes-Color-test.php?katb=04R0
http://www.playbuzz.com/jon10/what-color-matches-your-personality
http://www.quizony.com/color/result.html
Week 8 - Artist Research
Weeks 10-14 : Independent research and investigation towards a final studio piece or pieces.
Artists Statements
What is an Artist Statement?
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Q: Why do I have to write an artist statement? It's stupid. If I wanted to write to express myself I would have been a writer. The whole idea of my art is to say things visually. Why can't people just look at my art and take away whatever experiences they will?
A: Artist statements are not stupid; they're more like essential. And you don't have to be a writer to write one. And people already look at your art and take away whatever experiences they will. Your artist statement is about facts, a basic introduction to your art; it's not instructions on what to experience, what to think, how to feel, how to act, or where to stand, and if it is, you'd better do a rewrite.
The instructions say...Write below a short critical analysis of your visual arts work in option A or option B. Consider some or all of the following key words to help you with your statement. Of course not every one of these key terms can be discussed and it is best to focus on the ones that are particularly relevant to the students’ work.
A good candidate statement is a clear, truthful, summary of the students artistic journey during the IB Art course.
A: Artist statements are not stupid; they're more like essential. And you don't have to be a writer to write one. And people already look at your art and take away whatever experiences they will. Your artist statement is about facts, a basic introduction to your art; it's not instructions on what to experience, what to think, how to feel, how to act, or where to stand, and if it is, you'd better do a rewrite.
The instructions say...Write below a short critical analysis of your visual arts work in option A or option B. Consider some or all of the following key words to help you with your statement. Of course not every one of these key terms can be discussed and it is best to focus on the ones that are particularly relevant to the students’ work.
- Concerns
- Skills
- Purpose
- Source
- Techniques
- Process
- Influences
- Media
- Achievements
- Context
- Scale
- Focus
A good candidate statement is a clear, truthful, summary of the students artistic journey during the IB Art course.