Art

I fully believe that art cannot be “graded”, like in an elementary art class. It is humiliating to the artist, who pours their heart out onto their canvas; it is a slap in the face, or a slap to their heart! It is like saying “you shouldn’t have felt so passionate towards this subject, but instead you should have felt more like you were trapped in a little black box to conform to these rules and elements of composition.”
I did the “practise test” for IB art last year, although it wasn’t exactly assessed (I was running back and forth between Trep and Ms. Holmes who were telling me the different rules I had to follow, and whether I had broken them or not). But I still followed through with the exam, and the trippy lady did not much care for my art, which came straight from my heart, and that was a very harsh insult to me!

Emily did the actual exam and only got a 4– although she had passed, she was upset, because she says, and I KNOW that her art is worth more if it comes from her heart, and she was denied the proper acknowledgment and praise. Now, this makes me terrified for testing this year, if my heart is denied just once more.