Selected Works: Demonstrating Skills
Introduced| English | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 2-D skills/tuː diː skɪlz/ | The use of visual elements and design principles to organise work on a flat surface. |
Your five strongest
- The Selected Works section shows your best evidence of 2-D skills 二维技能 and synthesis.
- Submit 5 works (physical or digital) as high-quality images.
- These are judged mainly on skilful use of the elements and principles.
Selected Works are judged mainly on...
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Selected Works are judged on 2-D skills and synthesis.
Select all good reasons to choose a Selected Work.
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Skill, synthesis, and control are good reasons; a weak theme-match is not.
Written information
- For each work, give the materials, processes, and ideas used, plus the size.
- The writing is brief — just enough to inform the viewer.
- It helps the reader understand what they are looking at.
A finished Selected Work: craft, composition and skill must read clearly in the submitted image
Good choice for Selected Works?
Sort each choice as a good or poor basis for Selected Works.
For each Selected Work, you give the materials, processes, ideas, and the ____.
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Give the materials, processes, ideas, and size for each work.
Match each fact to Selected Works.
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5 works; judged on skill+synthesis; no required link to SI.
Not tied to the investigation
- Selected Works need not belong to the sustained investigation.
- Choose works that most clearly show control, decision-making, and synthesis.
- Pick your strongest evidence of skill, wherever it comes from.
Selected Works must all belong to your sustained investigation.
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They need not relate to the investigation or each other.
Selected Works are judged on 2-D skills and synthesis — not on a shared theme. They do not have to relate to your sustained investigation or to each other. Pick your five most skilful works, full stop, wherever they came from.
A student's 5 Selected Works are unrelated in subject — a portrait, a still life, a print, a digital design, a mixed-media piece — but each shows outstanding 2-D skills and synthesis. Chosen purely for skill, they make a strong section even without a shared theme.
Selected Works are 5 works showing your best 2-D skills and synthesis, submitted as images with brief written materials, processes, and ideas plus size. They need not relate to the sustained investigation or each other — choose your strongest evidence of skill.
Write from choosing 5 of 6 flat works
- A student has 8 pieces. Two are sculptures.
- Selected Works need the strongest flat work.
A student has 8 pieces, and 2 of them are sculptures. For Selected Works in this 2-D portfolio, how should they choose?
Selected Works is a group of five strong flat pieces, not a second investigation.
How many works go in Selected Works, and which pieces are out?
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Two sculptures leave the 2-D set. Five of the remaining flat works are chosen for skill.