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UNCENSORED
IB ART EXHIBITION @ CENTRAL WORLD
SPORTS AND ACTIVITIES
R uamrudee School’s IB Visual International Arts Year
2 students put on an amazing exam
show entitled Uncensored on March
27-31 at Central World. The IB
Visual Arts course provides students
with opportunities to explore art on
a number of levels, including visual,
cultural, social and personal, which
was clearly depicted in many of the
pieces of work on display.
The course is not just about ‘making
things,’ rather it is a journey that is
described in the following way in the
IB subject guide:
Artistic learning requires a high
level of cognitive activity that is
both intellectual and emotional. For
students to communicate visually,
they must place themselves within
a cultural context, or contexts,
from which to discover and develop
appropriate techniques. Through
the visual arts, people acquire
understandings which are unique
in human development. Study of
the visual arts allows students to
discover ways in which to interpret
and comment critically on the human
condition.
Studying the IB Visual Arts course
allows students to develop a critical
and intensely personal view of
themselves in relation to the world.
It aims to encourage personal growth
and commitment through the study of
art as well as a relationship between
research and the production of art.
Students displayed their art
professionally in order for the IB
examiner to assess their work over
the two-year program. Students had
to demonstrate clearly in visual and
written terms how personal research
has led to an understanding of the
topics (ideas) being investigated;
analyze critically the meaning and
visual qualities of an art using an
informed art vocabulary; show
awareness of cultural, historical, and
social aspects of themes from more
than one perspective; and examine the
visual and functional (the purpose)
qualities of art from your own and
other cultures, identifying meaning
and significance.
Our congratulations and best of luck
go out to the graduating IB Visual Art
students for a job well done!
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