INTAKE CAPACITY (ONE BATCH) 50 STUDENTS
Duration: 4 Years
Drawing and Painting is a three years degree course that provides a B.F.A degree in fine art discipline. The course facilitates students to explore oneself as a Painter keeping his/her originality untouched for creative visual expression. The structure of the course is so planned with the conviction that technical competency and skill provide the most satisfactory foundation for the creation of art. Yet mastery of techniques is only the means, not the goal. The curriculum is intended that students are exposed to all the techniques, traditions, mediums, schools, and practices followed right from early to modern times. The course is aimed to cultivate amongst the student an individual persona, professional artist-painter and more importantly his/her unique style with which they will be known as a sensitive artist.
The B.F.A. degree holder can work in any professional field – Cultural, Entertainment, Education, Finance, Medical, Social, etc. All that a student needs an ability to see and understand things with a different, unique, and creative vision. At GCM’s Painting department the emphasis is on the development of the student’s inner self and the philosophy they create.
Course modules: Sketching techniques, Appreciation and interrelation of all art forms, Compositional study, Texture and Colour Skill, Sketchbook practice, Human & Animal anatomy, Sensitive core development, Creative visualization, Exploration of different mediums, Philosophy and Literature.
OPTIONAL SUBJECT IN PAINTING DEPT.
Graphic Arts (Printmaking) is a popular art-making process in all over the world. Contemporary printmaking came to India in 1556, about a hundred years after Guttenberg’s Bible. which was the first example of printed forms. Printmaking is a concept of duplication and reproduction work of mass duplication. ‘Print’ is a part of our life not only as a commercial aspect but a unique and effective medium of artistic expression as printmaking is recognized today in India.
Printmaking is an important optional subject to graduation level course of BFA (Painting) and a specialization subject to post-graduation course MFA (Graphic arts). GCM provides necessary studio facilities to the students such as ancient Litho Press, Etching Press, Serigraphy set-up, etc. to learn various printmaking techniques like etching, colour etching, glass etching, metal engraving, wood engraving, woodcut, forex board, colography, palatography Stone Lithography, dry prints, Monoprints, Digital mass medium, etc. Students will be trained in the two-dimensional creative aspect covered in the Graphic Arts.
After completion of MFA (Graphic Arts), students can be established in their own Graphic Arts Studio and work as independent artists. He can sell his artifacts to art galleries and art collectors. His practical ability & skill also be useful in making a successful career in industries, textile industries, education field, etc.