<p>is there alot of research involved?
what do you research ?</p>
<p>How much studio work is put in?</p>
<p>How are assessments done?</p>
<p>Is it a very time consuming subject?</p>
<p>I've taken o level art (high school art)
which required us to submit two final pieces for grading. One of which had to be a painting/drawing done in 3 hours.
And another , were we given 7 months to complete, for both pieces we were given five "themes" to choose from. Basically the who thing was VERY time consuming and VERY restrictive. Not a whole lot of research , 85% studio work . </p>
<p>Bascially im hoping IB art is not like that , and alot more encouraging of experimentation.</p>
<p>IB art, you have workbooks, of everything you do- I do beleive, if HL, you have 1 per year, and if SL, you get only 1. Basically, everything u do is in the workbook, and those get submitted. </p>
<p>Here is an example syllabus- might be different at your school.</p>
<p>IB Art at my school definitely encourages experimentation, especially if you're doing HL (2 years). In the first year of HL (junior year), we were really encouraged to experiment with different media and subject matter; we also had a lot of presentations on things like color, light, form/shape, line, etc., and had to do mini pieces incorporating these (for color, we had to do a water color painting; for form/shape, a sculpture of a head; for line, a wire sculpture). In the second year of HL (senior year- what I'm in now), you're pretty much expected to buckle down and focus a bit more and basically spend a lot of time in the studio, making pieces. SL is only one year (senior year), and you basically have to spend a lot of time in the studio. For both, you're expected to spend time in the studio outside of class.</p>