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Looking for a Career Option in the Field of Fine Arts ? This section features Fine Arts as a career
option, elaborated with reference to the job profile, personality traits required, the courses and training involved, premier institutions and future prospects.
Fine Arts focus on painting, sculpting, applied art, graphic interior design, mural design, mental craft,ceramic design, and pottery-in its various specializations. The field has wide applications in the job
market in the present times. A small number of artists are talented enough and have the right type of
professional contacts to be able to make a living by painting and sculpting alone. Art as a therapeutictreatment for mentally disturbed persons is sometimes a part of psychiatric social work.
Personality Traits
Artists should have creative talent, self confidence and perseverance plus an awareness of, and interestin the social environment and community needs, tastes, and customs are useful attributes for artists.
In the business environment, artists should have the ability to work as one of team, to take responsibilityas well as criticism, to appreciate economic constraints of clients, to communicate with clients and
employers who commission art work without being interested in art themselves, and take interest in alltypes of assignments.
Courses/Training
Training in fine arts is usually available in BFA programme which is conducted by more than fifty
universities in their colleges. The BFA programme is usually of four to five years duration and may betaken up after successful completion of plus 2 or equivalent examination..
Further professional study in fine arts may be pursued in the form of a master's degree programme
(MFA), usually of two year duration. MFA course is open to BFA graduates. BFA degree holders are alsoeligible to pursue postgraduate diploma programme at National Institute of Design (NID) at Ahmedabad
Courses in Fine Arts are
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Dances
• B.A (Hons) Dance
• B.A Dance
• BFA in Dance
• Certificate Course in Dance
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Certificate course in Music & Dance• Courses in Kathak
• Diploma in Dance
• M.A Dance
• MFA in Dance
• U.G. Diploma Course in Music & Dance
Painting
• B.A Painting
• BFA in Painting
• Diploma in Painting• MFA in Painting
• U.G. Diploma Course in Painting
Sculpture
• B.A Sculpture
• BFA in Sculpture
• Diploma in Sculpture
• U.G Diploma Course in Sculpture
• U.G. Diploma Course in Fine Arts
Drama
• Course in Drama
Music
• B.A (Hons) Music
• B.A (Visual Art/Music/Dance & Drama)
• B.A Music
• BA in Tabla
• BFA in Sitar • BFA in Tabla
• Certificate course in Music
• Certificate course in Music & Dance
• Certificate course in Music Appreciation & Music
• Degree in Music
• Diploma in Music
• Diploma in Sitar
• Diploma in Tabla
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• Diploma Proficiency course in Music
• M.A Music
• M.Phil in Music
• Ph.D in Music
• U.G. Diploma Course in Music & Dance
• Private Dance & Music Schools
Placements And Prospects
Professionals in fine arts have many avenues open to them depending on their talent, personality and
perseverance. Advertising agencies employ fine arts graduates in their creative department as visualizes
with good remuneration. The textile industry needs the skill of art professionals to create new designs,keeping in mind emerging tastes and fashions. The electronic media, films and theatre productions
require newly designed sets all the time for their studios and artists may find a niche there.
The publishing industry which is on the upswing in the country is also employer of skilled artists to
design the jackets of new books and also to illustrate them. Graphic arts specialists help out intypography. Artists may design stamps for postal departments and also travel brochures for transport and
tourism industry. Teaching, becoming an art critic, writing on art and art therapy and other avenues of
remunerative employment for artists.
Prospects of rise and success in the field of fine arts depend on the individual’s talent, motivation,
interest, awareness of market for their creativity, experience and exposure. Being at right place at right
time may change the course of an artist's career.