For students who are on the IB Diploma Program, it is important to connect your IB Visual Art experience to your TOK class. Some Ideas for TOK Questions
What is Art?
Is art original?
Is it important for artworks to be original? Why?
Life imitates art far more than art imitates life. Explain.
Is art a Lie or Truth? Explain.
What are the standards by which we judge art and how can we justify them?
What moral responsibilities does the artist have? Are they different from any other knower?
To what extent does an artist have a moral obligation to avoid or confront issues that might shock or be contrary to the common populace?
Is the artists’ intention relevant to the viewer?
To what extent does the work of the artist influence the culture in which it was created? To what extent does the existing culture influence the artist working in it?
Is it important for artworks to be original? Why?
What do we expect from art? Truth? Seduction? Provocation? Beauty?
Why are the arts important?
What are the roles of emotion and reason in the arts?
Originality in Art: When does "inspiration" become plagiarism?
Does an artwork have to "say something" to be meaningful?
Is process more important than product?
Do all art forms (literature, painting, music, sculpture, architecture, dance etc) use a language?
How important is it that the artist intention be perceived or understood by the audience?
Should art be beautiful?
Must true art be recognised by experts?
Can art give us knowledge?
To what extent is creativity linked to reason?
Can art help us to understand individuals and societies?
Should the arts have an ethical function?
If an author justifies their work, can we trust the knowledge?
How true is it to say, 'what constitutes art is relative to the individual time and place'?
Does perception affect creativity?
How does prior learning or experience influence our interpretation of art?
Can form exist without space?
Can space exist without form?
Is a balloon defined by what it contains or by what surrounds it?
Why are some objects treated as art?
Why do we put artefacts into museums?
How does an objects function change when we put it into a special place?
Does an artwork have to say something to be meaningful?
What moral responsibilities do artists have?
Are ways of knowing employed in radically different ways in the arts than in other areas of knowledge?
What are the standards by which we judge artworks?
To what extent is truth different in the arts, maths, and ethics?
Why might we be more concerned with the process rather than the product in the search for knowledge?