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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.