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IB Visual Arts

Making art as inquiry in a studio setting: creating, connecting your work with other artists and contexts, and communicating it to audiences.

  • Group 6, the arts
  • SL and HL
  • First assessment 2027

What Augment has for Visual Arts

For Visual Arts, Augment has the syllabus and how the subject is assessed. There are no questions, notes or flashcards for it yet.

Both are below, and they come straight from the subject guide, so they are worth reading before you choose your subjects.

Counted on 20 October 2026

The Visual Arts syllabus

6 topics and 48 subtopics, first assessment 2027.

  1. 1Create

    1. 1.1Nurturing an art-making practice and a personal visual language
    2. 1.2Engaging with concepts, experiences and the world through art-making
    3. 1.3Developing observation skills
    4. 1.4Investigating creative strategies and art-making forms
    5. 1.5Media, materials, techniques and conventions
    6. 1.6Selecting resources and materials for your intentions
    7. 1.7Synthesising concept and form to communicate meaning
    8. 1.8Reviewing, refining and documenting your art-making
    9. 1.9Taking part in dialogue and critique
    10. 1.10Persisting, pausing, restarting and repurposing
    11. 1.11Pursuing artworks to resolution
  2. 2Connect

    1. 2.1Personal, local and global contexts for art-making
    2. 2.2Links between your creative process and other artists’ work
    3. 2.3Investigating artworks from different contexts
    4. 2.4Intercultural understanding, critical reflexivity and self-reflexivity
    5. 2.5How formal qualities and creative strategies convey meaning
    6. 2.6The function and meaning of art and artworks
    7. 2.7Cultural significance across time and place
    8. 2.8Dialogue and critique
    9. 2.9Your art-making and its audiences
  3. 3Communicate

    1. 3.1Sharing art-making with others
    2. 3.2Subject-specific language for artistic intentions
    3. 3.3Articulating critical analysis and curatorial choices
    4. 3.4Curating artworks to enhance meaning
    5. 3.5Selecting and organising visual materials
    6. 3.6Documenting lines of inquiry
    7. 3.7Dialogue and critique with artists and audiences
    8. 3.8Display and exhibition
  4. 4Art-making as inquiry

    1. 4.1Artistic intentions
    2. 4.2Creative strategies
    3. 4.3Art-making forms
    4. 4.4Lines of inquiry
    5. 4.5Visual language
    6. 4.6Critical analysis
  5. 5Contexts and cultural significance

    1. 5.1Personal, local and global contexts
    2. 5.2Aesthetic cultural significance
    3. 5.3Scientific cultural significance
    4. 5.4Historical cultural significance
    5. 5.5Spatial cultural significance
    6. 5.6Social cultural significance
    7. 5.7Spiritual cultural significance
  6. 6Assessment objectives

    1. 6.1Curate
    2. 6.2Investigate
    3. 6.3Generate
    4. 6.4Situate
    5. 6.5Refine
    6. 6.6Resolve
    7. 6.7Synthesise

How Visual Arts is assessed

From the subject guide, with a table for each level.

Standard Level

2 exams, internal assessment 40% of the grade.

ComponentTimeMarksWeight
Art-making inquiries portfolio

– · 32 marks

Curated evidence of your art-making as inquiry across a variety of forms and strategies: up to 15 screens and 3,000 words, plus a list of sources.

–3240%
Connections study

– · 24 marks

Connects one of your resolved artworks with your context and with at least two artworks by other artists: up to 10 screens and 2,500 words, plus sources.

–2420%
Resolved artworksInternal

Coursework · 32 marks

Five resolved artworks (images, or videos up to 3 minutes each) with titles and details, plus a rationale of up to 700 words on two screens.

Coursework3240%

Higher Level

2 exams, internal assessment 40% of the grade.

ComponentTimeMarksWeight
Art-making inquiries portfolio

– · 32 marks

Curated evidence of your art-making as inquiry across a variety of forms and strategies: up to 15 screens and 3,000 words, plus a list of sources.

–3230%
Artist project

– · 40 marks

An artwork made and situated in a context you choose: up to 12 screens and 2,500 words, a video of up to 3 minutes, and a list of sources.

–4030%
Selected resolved artworksInternal

Coursework · 40 marks

Five artworks chosen from at least eight, with a rationale of up to 700 words and five artwork texts of up to 1,000 words in all, on up to eight screens.

Coursework4040%
Every paper, the IA and grade boundaries

Questions about Visual Arts

Useful for Visual Arts

  • Assessment and boundariesEach Visual Arts paper in full, the internal assessment and grade boundaries by session.
  • Grade calculatorTurn marks into a grade, or six grades and the core into Diploma points.

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