IB Art-making
forms
Throughout the course students
are expected to experience working
with a variety of different
art-making and conceptual forms. SL students
should, as a minimum, experience working with at least two art-making
forms, each selected from separate columns of the table
below. HL students should, as a minimum,
experience working with at least three art-making forms, selected from a minimum
of two columns of the table
below. The examples
given are for guidance only and are not intended
to represent a definitive list.| 
   
Two-dimensional forms 
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Three-dimensional forms 
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Lens-based, electronic and screen-based forms 
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•                            Drawing: such as charcoal, pencil, ink, collage 
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  Carved sculpture: such as carved
  wood, stone, block 
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  Time-based and
  sequential art: such as stop-motion, digital
  animation, video art 
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  Lens
  media: such as analogue
  (wet) photography, digital 
photography, montage 
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  Lens-less
  media: such as photogram/rayograph,
  scenography, pinhole photography, cyanotype, salted paper 
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  Digital/screen
  based: such as vector graphics, software developed painting, design
  and illustration 
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  Painting: such as acrylic, oil, watercolour, murals 
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  Modelled sculpture: such as wax, polymer clays 
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  Printmaking: such as relief, intaglio, 
planographic, chine collé 
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  Graphics: such as illustration and design, graphic novel, storyboard 
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  Constructed sculpture: such as assemblage, bricolage, wood,
  plastic, paper, glass 
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  Cast sculpture: such as plaster, wax,
  bronze, paper, plastic, glass 
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  Ceramics: such as hand-built forms,
  thrown vessels, mould-made objects 
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  Designed objects: such as models, interior
  design, jewellery 
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  Site-specific/ephemeral: such as land art, installation, performance art 
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  Textiles: such as fibre, weaving, constructed textiles 
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