Criterion A: The chosen title is made clear and apparent in the submission by student

Comment: The chosen title "For artists and natural scientists, which is more important: what can be explained or what cannot be explained? Discuss with reference to the arts and the natural sciences." can be clearly seen at the beginning of the student's work. It is important to state the chosen title clearly at the beginning to inform the TOK examiner which title the student is writing for.

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Criterion A: The work is effectively linked with different Areas of Knowledge

Comment: Effective links were made with the two Areas of Knowledge, which were Arts and Natural Sciences. For the Natural Sciences, the explainable is defined as things that we are able to understand and accept as a society while the unexplainable is something that we may have yet to understand but serves as a catalyst to be curious, explore, and find answers. The student does make the argument that the explainable is more important for the natural sciences than the unexplainable due to its utility and has immediate benefits. For the Arts, the explainable is defined as the artworks that are able to deliver a clear message that many can appreciate, some with the added utility of addressing a societal problem such as with the works of Ai Weiwei and Picasso's Guernica. The unexplainable are those artworks that are unconventional or not easily understood or perhaps there is no single correct interpretation such as Duchamp's Fountain and the works of Pollock.

Criterion A: The work is effectively linked with different Areas of Knowledge

Comment: Effective links were made with the two Areas of Knowledge, which were Arts and Natural Sciences. For the Natural Sciences, the explainable is defined as things that we are able to understand and accept as a society while the unexplainable is something that we may have yet to understand but serves as a catalyst to be curious, explore, and find answers. The student does make the argument that the explainable is more important for the natural sciences than the unexplainable due to its utility and has immediate benefits. For the Arts, the explainable is defined as the artworks that are able to deliver a clear message that many can appreciate, some with the added utility of addressing a societal problem such as with the works of Ai Weiwei and Picasso's Guernica. The unexplainable are those artworks that are unconventional or not easily understood or perhaps there is no single correct interpretation such as Duchamp's Fountain and the works of Pollock.

Criterion A: The work is effectively linked with different Areas of Knowledge

Comment: Effective links were made with the two Areas of Knowledge, which were Arts and Natural Sciences. For the Natural Sciences, the explainable is defined as things that we are able to understand and accept as a society while the unexplainable is something that we may have yet to understand but serves as a catalyst to be curious, explore, and find answers. The student does make the argument that the explainable is more important for the natural sciences than the unexplainable due to its utility and has immediate benefits. For the Arts, the explainable is defined as the artworks that are able to deliver a clear message that many can appreciate, some with the added utility of addressing a societal problem such as with the works of Ai Weiwei and Picasso's Guernica. The unexplainable are those artworks that are unconventional or not easily understood or perhaps there is no single correct interpretation such as Duchamp's Fountain and the works of Pollock.

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Criterion A: The work is effectively linked with different Areas of Knowledge

Comment: Effective links were made with the two Areas of Knowledge, which were Arts and Natural Sciences. For the Natural Sciences, the explainable is defined as things that we are able to understand and accept as a society while the unexplainable is something that we may have yet to understand but serves as a catalyst to be curious, explore, and find answers. The student does make the argument that the explainable is more important for the natural sciences than the unexplainable due to its utility and has immediate benefits. For the Arts, the explainable is defined as the artworks that are able to deliver a clear message that many can appreciate, some with the added utility of addressing a societal problem such as with the works of Ai Weiwei and Picasso's Guernica. The unexplainable are those artworks that are unconventional or not easily understood or perhaps there is no single correct interpretation such as Duchamp's Fountain and the works of Pollock.

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Criterion A: The work is effectively linked with different Areas of Knowledge

Comment: Effective links were made with the two Areas of Knowledge, which were Arts and Natural Sciences. For the Natural Sciences, the explainable is defined as things that we are able to understand and accept as a society while the unexplainable is something that we may have yet to understand but serves as a catalyst to be curious, explore, and find answers. The student does make the argument that the explainable is more important for the natural sciences than the unexplainable due to its utility and has immediate benefits. For the Arts, the explainable is defined as the artworks that are able to deliver a clear message that many can appreciate, some with the added utility of addressing a societal problem such as with the works of Ai Weiwei and Picasso's Guernica. The unexplainable are those artworks that are unconventional or not easily understood or perhaps there is no single correct interpretation such as Duchamp's Fountain and the works of Pollock.

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Criterion A: The work is effectively linked with different Areas of Knowledge

Comment: Effective links were made with the two Areas of Knowledge, which were Arts and Natural Sciences. For the Natural Sciences, the explainable is defined as things that we are able to understand and accept as a society while the unexplainable is something that we may have yet to understand but serves as a catalyst to be curious, explore, and find answers. The student does make the argument that the explainable is more important for the natural sciences than the unexplainable due to its utility and has immediate benefits. For the Arts, the explainable is defined as the artworks that are able to deliver a clear message that many can appreciate, some with the added utility of addressing a societal problem such as with the works of Ai Weiwei and Picasso's Guernica. The unexplainable are those artworks that are unconventional or not easily understood or perhaps there is no single correct interpretation such as Duchamp's Fountain and the works of Pollock.

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Criterion A: The work is effectively linked with different Areas of Knowledge

Comment: Effective links were made with the two Areas of Knowledge, which were Arts and Natural Sciences. For the Natural Sciences, the explainable is defined as things that we are able to understand and accept as a society while the unexplainable is something that we may have yet to understand but serves as a catalyst to be curious, explore, and find answers. The student does make the argument that the explainable is more important for the natural sciences than the unexplainable due to its utility and has immediate benefits. For the Arts, the explainable is defined as the artworks that are able to deliver a clear message that many can appreciate, some with the added utility of addressing a societal problem such as with the works of Ai Weiwei and Picasso's Guernica. The unexplainable are those artworks that are unconventional or not easily understood or perhaps there is no single correct interpretation such as Duchamp's Fountain and the works of Pollock.

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Criterion A: The work is effectively linked with different Areas of Knowledge

Comment: Effective links were made with the two Areas of Knowledge, which were Arts and Natural Sciences. For the Natural Sciences, the explainable is defined as things that we are able to understand and accept as a society while the unexplainable is something that we may have yet to understand but serves as a catalyst to be curious, explore, and find answers. The student does make the argument that the explainable is more important for the natural sciences than the unexplainable due to its utility and has immediate benefits. For the Arts, the explainable is defined as the artworks that are able to deliver a clear message that many can appreciate, some with the added utility of addressing a societal problem such as with the works of Ai Weiwei and Picasso's Guernica. The unexplainable are those artworks that are unconventional or not easily understood or perhaps there is no single correct interpretation such as Duchamp's Fountain and the works of Pollock.

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Criterion A: The work is effectively linked with different Areas of Knowledge

Comment: Effective links were made with the two Areas of Knowledge, which were Arts and Natural Sciences. For the Natural Sciences, the explainable is defined as things that we are able to understand and accept as a society while the unexplainable is something that we may have yet to understand but serves as a catalyst to be curious, explore, and find answers. The student does make the argument that the explainable is more important for the natural sciences than the unexplainable due to its utility and has immediate benefits. For the Arts, the explainable is defined as the artworks that are able to deliver a clear message that many can appreciate, some with the added utility of addressing a societal problem such as with the works of Ai Weiwei and Picasso's Guernica. The unexplainable are those artworks that are unconventional or not easily understood or perhaps there is no single correct interpretation such as Duchamp's Fountain and the works of Pollock.

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Criterion A: The work is effectively linked with different Areas of Knowledge

Comment: Effective links were made with the two Areas of Knowledge, which were Arts and Natural Sciences. For the Natural Sciences, the explainable is defined as things that we are able to understand and accept as a society while the unexplainable is something that we may have yet to understand but serves as a catalyst to be curious, explore, and find answers. The student does make the argument that the explainable is more important for the natural sciences than the unexplainable due to its utility and has immediate benefits. For the Arts, the explainable is defined as the artworks that are able to deliver a clear message that many can appreciate, some with the added utility of addressing a societal problem such as with the works of Ai Weiwei and Picasso's Guernica. The unexplainable are those artworks that are unconventional or not easily understood or perhaps there is no single correct interpretation such as Duchamp's Fountain and the works of Pollock.

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Criterion A: The chosen title is made clear and apparent in the submission by student

Comment: The chosen title "For artists and natural scientists, which is more important: what can be explained or what cannot be explained? Discuss with reference to the arts and the natural sciences." can be clearly seen at the beginning of the student's work. It is important to state the chosen title clearly at the beginning to inform the TOK examiner which title the student is writing for.