FOUNDATION COURSE

The Foundation Course is of one-year duration and common to all students. The objective of this intensive course is to provide fundamental training in Drawing, Design, Sculpture and Drafting to create awareness in students about the potential of various disciplines offered in the degree programe.

STUDIO COURSES

DRAWING

Drawing plays an integral part in almost all-visual disciplines. The classes include exercises in free hand drawing from objects, nature, and human figure to study proportion, volume and visual perspective. These exercises are meant to increase the realization of rhythm, relationship between line, form, value and texture. Emphasis will be put on the knowledge of drawing materials and their possibilities fro imaginative drawing.

SCULPTURE

Student learn and explore different aspects of three-dimensional form, principles of balance, space volume relationship and deep understanding of material and the mechanics of sculpture. The manipulation of material usage and ever growing skill & confidence is an encouraged element of our teaching. Students are guided towards the development of their own vocabulary of form and the close and critical examination of other sculptor™s work. They are encouraged to place their works in the internal environment and to coincide its broader relationship with the environment.

PAINTING

The development of painting is taught in the painting course through the use of various media & techniques. The students learn the principle of pictorial composition and are guided towards self-expression & communication through visual Arts. A sense of acute perception is developed through painting from observation. Exercises are carried out with focus on color in nature, landscape still life compositions & portraiture.

PRINTMAKING

Students are introduced to a wide range of printmaking techniques, which include etching, woodcut and lino cut. There is an emphasis on the command of technical skill. The proficient use of diverse media enables students approach to there work and helps to develop personal artistic language.

MINATURE PAINTING

One of the core courses of Fine Arts department is miniature painting where students are prepared to develop their skill in the traditional style of painting. In a way it is also an endeavor on part of the academy to carry on this traditional heritage in its best possible and purest form with emphasis on the traditional technique.

DESIGN

Design, like art, is a human response to various needs and desires. Factors motivating design range from the common needs for food, shelter, clothing and communication to the most esoteric desires of esteem and self-realization. Design is a force that historically reflects both individual interpretations, conditioned by changing environments and the restraints of materials and technologies of the time. The main objective of this course is to understand the processes of from synthesis and the development of visual vocabulary. The basic purpose through the first year will be to progressively enhance the students aesthetics concerning design, whether it is Graphic Design, Typography, Photography, Ceramics or Sculpture. Once the importance of the elements of design is understood, this becomes the basis of any art form. Exercises fare meant to sharpen the skill of a designer (sketches, lines work, color and darkroom usage, etc.) as well as to enable him / her to shift through and form a strong designers eye. All this practical knowledge will be backed by a comprehensive history of design and designers.

GRAPHC DESIGN

Graphic design provides students with principal of design & typography to corporate communication, interactive multi-media & publications.

Emphasis is on process, analysis & development of creative & challenging solutions thus the students are able to produce complete advertising campaigns.

PHOTOGRAPHY

This course provides students a general training in photography covering principles of design & professional photography. Thus students learn to plan, compose and optimize images captured for printing projects.

TEXTILE DESIGN

Textile design is one of the biggest courses designed to equip the students with the knowledge, skill & methodology to function successfully as a designer in the textile industry. Courses are designed to achieve creative problem abilities. The emphasis is placed on the quality of design in relation to the product through the application of colors, design history and rich traditional history. Different techniques of textile designing like screen-printing block printing tie & dye, batik, and weaving in traditional way along with study of vegetable dyes to enhance awareness of nature & indigenous materials.

CERAMICS

This course covers all the areas of ceramics, like pinch, coil, slab and wheel methods, though it is offered as a minor but it enables the students to realize their potentials as an individual designer and to provide an educational experiences and challenges to stir their creative juices.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Product designers special privilege is to imagine, to recollect, to think and to feel in forms. For activates feelings. Form is not merely a play with abstraction, a communication of pleasure by the skillful manipulation of proportions, intervals and other geometrical elements. It is the recognition of the fact that we are what we create, use and treasure that underlines the real value of thee designs.

DRAFTING

Introduction to elements and principles of architectural rendition, Isometric projections, Parallel and angular perspective.

THEORY

The objective of teaching theory subjects, such as Art History, Art Appreciation, Social Sciences, History of Culture and Aesthetics, is to acquaint the students with the development of art through the ages. The main purpose is to inoculate in the students an awareness of history heritage and evolution of the arts and its continuity and the instruction is appropriately supported by visuals, lectures, discussions, seminars, written exercises and tests.

WORKSHOPS

Workshops, n various topics, will be arranged at pre-announced dates. These will be conducted by experts and are meant to support the training programs in disciplines of visual & Performing Arts.

MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION

The medium of instruction for all the courses, the workshop component, thesis, presentation of assignments and final examination is English.

THEATRE PRODUCTION

THE ART AND TV PRODUCTION

The College has a production unit that has been involved in a lot of TV dramas and Documentaries. The HPU plans to acquire all necessary facilities for a degree course in the field of but accommodates people interested in various areas of Production to JOIN the team and get the required training informally. The enthusiasts can be trained in Acting, Directing, Script writing, set designing, Camera and editing in an on job learning atmosphere during our own productions till the required infra structure for a full length theatre and film making course is developed. The number of trainees however is limited.

MUSIC

Hunerkada has a music program that offers training in Classical and semi classical music of the region. The program is confide to vocal music and has had quite a few talented students including a sizable number of foreign students from countries like the US, China, Bangladesh and Ins.

There are a number of ways in which potential for Fine Arts, i.e. Sculpture, painting and Printmaking, manifest itself in a student. It may be an inherent ability to draw a sense of color, a feeling, and capacity for a happy arrangement of images on a canvas. Going above these qualities is the talent for utilizing them for creative expression, an area where the individual taste and tendency and a sort of metaphysical application of talent starts mattering.

The aim of the Fine Arts department is to allow these basic qualities to develop in a student and when it is believed that he / she has grasped the essential and acquired reasonable control over the technical competence needed, then encourage the budding artist to flourish according to their own preference needed, then encourage the budding artist to flourish according to their own preferences for this is considered necessary to acquaint students with all the numerous schools of art, both in the classical and modern traditions, as well as making them thoroughly familiar with the tools and crafts of Fine Arts. After which only a gentle help and guidance from tutors who are experts and masters in their respective fields can enable them to express their creativity through their choices.

The Department is conscious of the fact that art cannot be forced down the throats of students, nor can artists be manufactured. The artist only needs time and encouraging instructions, along with knowledge of the background and history of art, to assert its presence.