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Careers in Fine Arts

Overview:
Fine Art as a field of study covers following areas;
  • Drawing and Sketching
  • Painting
  • Sculpture Making
  • Print making
  • Illustrator
  • Miniature
  • Ceramic designing
Fine artists create works of art to communicate ideas, thoughts, or feelings. They view their art as a means of self-expression.
A Painter use oils, watercolours, and acrylics to create portraits, landscapes, and still life pictures. They use brushes, palette knives, and other tools to apply colour to canvases. Painters have different styles such as abstract or realistic.
Sculptors design three-dimensional works. They model materials such as clay and wax using small tools and their fingers. Some sculptors carve stone or wood using chisels and gouges. Some sculptors cut, bend, and fasten materials such as steel to form works of art.

Printmakers create printed images from designs cut or etched into wood, stone, or metal. Some printmakers use computers to design and process prints.
Illustrators paint or draw pictures for books, magazines, and other publications. They draw models and diagrams. Illustrators also create scenic backgrounds used for movies. Sometimes they use computers to create images.

Where to Study:
  • Department of Visual Arts, University of Karachi, Karachi    
    http://www.uok.edu.pk

    • BFA (Bachelors in Fine Arts)- 4 years
    • BFA in Islamic Arts – 4 years
  • Faculty of Arts, University of Sindh, Jamshoro    
    http://www.usindh.edu.pk

    • BA (Hons) – 3 years
    • MA – Fine Arts
  • Department of fine Arts, National College of Arts, Lahore    
    http://www.nca.edu.pk

    • BA-Fine Arts – 4 years
    • MA in Visual Arts – 2 years
  • Lahore College for Women University, Lahore  
    http://www.lcwu.edu.pk

    • BA in Visual Arts – 4 years
    • MA in Fine Arts – 2 years
  • Faculty of Art and design, University of South Asia,  Lahore    
    http://www.usa.edu.pk

    • BFA (Bachelors in Fine Arts)-
    • MFA (Masters in Fine Arts)
  • College of Arts andand Design, University of the Punjab, Lahore    
    http://www.pu.edu.pk

    • BFA (Bachelors in Fine Arts)- 3 years
    • MFA – 1 year
    • MA in fine Art – 2 years
    • Professional Diploma – 1 year
  • School of Visual Arts, Beacon House National University    
    http://www.bnu.edu.pk

    • BFA in Visual Arts (2 Dimension, Dimension, Media Arts )-4 years
    • BFA in Visual Communication Design –  4 years
    • BA (hons) in History of Arts and Fine Arts – 5 years
  • Department of Fine Arts, University of Peshawar  
    http://www.upesh.edu.pk

    • BFA (Bachelors in Fine Arts) – 3 years
    • MFA (Masters In Fine Arts)– 2 years
Diploma:
Karachi School of Arts, Karachi
Prospects:
Career options open to fine artists are in:
  • Advertising agencies, as illustrators, creative director/ designer
  • Design houses, as freelance illustrators, cartoonists, graphic artists etc. to design items like cards, calendars etc.
  • Publishing houses for designing book covers
  • Exhibition and Event Designing
  • Product designing
  • Set designing
  • Freelance painter
  • Ceramic Industry
  • Art Education
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