Art & Craft

 

		The Art and Craft course enables the students to enhance their skills, in terms of expressing personal ideas and feelings. We lay emphasis upon originality, creativity and innovation. We encourage students to take inspiration from India's rich cultural heritage. At the same time, the modules are designed to develop ones individuality, as an Artist. Someone, who is able to respond to the professional demands of contemporary life.     The students achieve the ability to give visual form to their feelings, in both two and three-dimensional works of Art. They explore expressions in a variety of Craft. The programme caters really for two categories of Students. Students, who already have a background in Art, that is waiting to be honed and polished. Newer recruits, who want to discover their creative potential. The Department exposes students to a wide range of skills and prepares them for jobs in schools, handicraft industry and for self-entrepreneurship.		JOB OPPORTUNITIES • Handicraft industry • Advertising Industry • Hobby Centre • Art Agencies • Art & Craft Teacher • Interior Decorator • Free-Lance Artist • Creative Art Designer

Curriculum

ONE YEAR	FIRST YEAR	SECOND YEAR
Object Drawing	Object Drawing	Object Drawing
Clay Art	Clay Art	Clay Art
Painting	Painting	Painting
Nature Study	Life Drawing	Basic Design
Traditional Craft	Traditional Craft	Mural Techniques
	Mural Techniques

Subject Details

BASIC DESIGN : Principles of Design for Aesthetic Expression. The detailed study of Dot Line, Composition, Schiography in Monochrome, Polychrome and Perspective.

COMPOSITION : Application of the various techniques learnt in creative and innovative styles, to give shape and meaning to the technique.

MURAL TECHNIQUES :
1. Fresco : The technique of Painting on dry or weight Plaster with Vegetable/ Mineral Pigments, mixed with Water.
2. Mosaic : Picture and Patterns produced by an arrangement of small variously coloured piece of glass, stone or papers etc.
3. Murals : A Painting executed directly on the wall and other surfaces.

LIFE DRAWING : Learning Drawing and Painting with the help of various Objects and Models.

PAINTINGS : Painting as an expression from Nature, Landscapes, Objects and Imagination. Emphasis is laid on form, colour, tone, texture & impression.

METAL CRAFT : Embossing and Designing of different Metals.

NATURE STUDY : Study of the natural objects in nature for understanding of Colour, Texture and Form in different medium. Study of leaves, fruits, vegetables, plants and flowers etc.

OBJECT DRAWING : Understanding of basic shapes of the objects through shading.To learn also the expression of opaque and transparent Objects.

SKETCHING : Sketching is the first step in the Art World. One can understand different perspectives through sketching. A brief account without details to convey a general idea of something, is taught. A rough, slight, merely outlined or unfinished drawing made to assist in making a more finished picture is explained.

CLAY MODELLING : Imaginative expression in Three Dimensional Forms. Composition of an object, by making and use of Plaster-of-Paris technique.

TRADITIONAL ART : One learns the traditional paintings of different states, like Gujri paintings from Gujarat and Madhubani paintings from Mithila, etc.