IB Visual Arts at Saint

George’s School

Rome

Some thoughts and work

by our own students….

The fact that we are

constrained at the beginning

helped me a lot, but

then we were given more

freedom…

… and that was nice!

…and then I started to

take risks...

I wanted to give different

meaning to my work,

rather than showing just

what I'm good at.

...continuously thinking

about it...

…putting together,

reassemble, disassemble

your ideas…

Generally my ideas are very

spontaneous.

I’m inspired by socks, by

tissue paper, by ducks, by

onion soup…

... it's your secret… your

other identity, your other life –

and you can

do things that you wouldn't

normally do!

...these things complete me,

they make me more satisfied.

“I was, to a certain extent, influenced

by Haruki Murakami and his idea of

dislocated reality. In his novels he

juxtaposes the mundane with the

surreal but still maintains a thread that

can be related to. I used the same

principle in my art, where the quotidian

objects are used as a medium of

representation of rude and fishy

circumstances...”

Sir, whenever you tell me to do

something, I will always go and do the

opposite.

...and you give so much more so that

you get so much more, and so it

sort of works again; collaboratively,

reciprocally...

...you can't just go one way.

You have to go both ways

at the same time…

HL & SL:

60% Studio Work

40% IWBs

Examination by interview and

exhibition of work produced

throughout the course.

Art Expeditions

1 M

Investigation Workbooks

Final Exhibitions/Interviews/Exam

HL: 18 ‘projects’

SL: 12 ‘projects’