Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A)

Eligibility
Graduation of Fine arts

Age Limit:21

Description:

Fine Arts education is usually divided into three branches: Drawing,Painting and Sculpture

For success in this discipline, you need to have an inherent aptitude for fine arts, originality, creativity, keen observation, power of visualisation, appreciation of colours, lines, forms, proportions and an idea of the impact of colour combinations; they should also have drawing skills, patience, persistence, imagination, knowledge of the various media and a knack for maintaining good public relations. In this age of technology, knowledge of photography and ability to use computers will give an added advantage.

Professional courses in fine arts cover subject areas such as history of arts, aesthetics, visual culture, basic skills, study of the human figure, different materials (crayons, charcoal, water colour, oil, pencil, textiles, plastics, clay, terracotta ceramics, metals, wood, stones, Plaster of Paris, etc.) and their applications, photography, lithography, computer graphics, casting, print making and diverse media. The courses effectively integrate theory and practical skills.

Features:

The standard academic course in the subject is BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts), a four-year programme in many universities. Those who have passed the Plus Two examination and are blessed with an aptitude for arts can apply. They will have to prove their aptitude in an entrance test and probably at an interview, where they will be given an opportunity to show their amateur works of art.

The first year of the programme is usually a foundation course common for the three branches; it comprises basic training in drawing, design, colour, perspective and clay-modelling. From the second year onwards, the students get an opportunity to specialise in any one branch.

Some colleges provide facilities for a two-year MFA (Master of Fine Arts) programme as well. There are opportunities for further specialisation at this level.
The Drawing and Painting course lays emphasis on technical skills needed to express the artist's thoughts and emotions using different methods and materials. Familiarisation with traditional and contemporary styles and materials is also an integral part of the curriculum.

Courses Offered in Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A)


M.F.A - Dance
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A) (2 Years Course)

Age Limit:21
Description:

Dance is also used to describe methods of non-verbal communication (see body language) between humans or animals (bee dance, patterns of behaviour such as a mating dance), motion in inanimate objects (the leaves danced in the wind), and certain musical forms or genres.

Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social, cultural, aesthetic, artistic and moral constraints and range from functional movement (such as Folk dance) to virtuoso techniques such as ballet. In sports, gymnastics, figure skating and synchronized swimming are dance disciplines while Martial arts 'kata' are often compared to dances.

Dance can be directly participatory, social or performed for an audience. It can also be ceremonial, competitive or erotic. Dance movements may be without significance in themselves, such as in ballet or European folk dance, or have a gestural vocabulary/symbolic system as in many Asian dances. Dance can embody or express ideas, emotions or tell a story.

Choreography is the art of creating dances, and the person who does this is called a choreographer.


M.F.A - Music
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A)
(2 Years Course)

Age Limit: 21

Description:

Music is an art form that involves organised sounds and silence. It is expressed in terms of pitch (which includes melody and harmony), rhythm (which includes tempo and meter), and the quality of sound (which includes timbre, articulation, dynamics, and texture). Music may also involve generative forms in time through the construction of patterns and combinations of natural stimuli, principally sound. Music may be used for artistic or aesthetic, communicative, entertaining, ceremonial or religious purposes. The definition of what constitutes music varies according to culture and social context, with varied interpretations of the term being accepted under sub-genres of the art. Within "the arts", music can be classified as a performing art, a fine art, or an auditory art form.


M.F.A - Drama
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A)
(2 Years Course)

Age Limit: 21

Description:

Dramas can be performed in various media: live performance, radio, film, and-or television. "Closet dramas" are works written in the same form as plays (with dialogue, scenes, and "stage directions"), but meant to be read rather than staged; examples include the plays of Seneca, Manfred by Byron, and Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Other dramatic literature may not resemble plays at all, such as the Imaginary Conversations of Walter Savage Landor. Drama is also often combined with music and dance, such as in opera which is sung throughout, musicals which include spoken dialog and songs, or plays that have musical accompaniment, such as the Japanese Noh drama.

Improvisational drama, a form of improvisational theatre, is drama that has no set script, in which the performers take their cues from one another and the situations (sometimes established in advance) in which their characters find themselves to create their own dialogue as they perform. Improvisational drama is made up on the spot using whatever space, costumes or props are available.