Visual Art : Drawing and Painting
Syllabus of M.A. Drawing and Painting: 2010 – 2011
Semester II Max Marks :100
Internal: 50
External : 50
Course VI (Theory) ( History of modern painting – Company school to contemporary period )
Unit I ( 15 Periods )
A. Kalighat painting,
B. Company painting,
C. Raja Ravi Verma and his followers,
Unit II ( 15 Periods )
A. Nationalist movement and revival of traditional Indian art,
B. Views and works of Ananda Coomar Swamy, E.B. Havell, , Abanindranath Tagore, Nandlal Bose, Binod Bihari Mukharjee, yamini Roy, Ram Kinker Baij, Asit Kumar Haldar, Abdul Rehman Chugtai, Sudhir Ranjan Khastgir, Devi Prasad Roy Chowdhary and Ram Gopal Vijay Vargiya.
C. Modernism in Art - Rabindranath Tagore, Gagnendranath Tagore, Amrita Shergill and Yamini Roy.
Unit III ( 15 Periods )
A. Contemporary Artists – NS Bendre, KK Hebbar, KH Ara, MF Hussain, S Chavda, SH Raza, Souza, Ram Kumar, Tayeb Mehta, Satish Gujral, KS Kulkarni, Lakshman Pai, G.R. Santosh, J. Swami Nathan. ( 12 Periods )
B. V.S. Gytonda, P.N. Choyal, Akbar Padamsi, A. Ramachandran, Paramjeet Singh, R.S.Bisht, Manjeet Bawa, Anjaolie Ela Menon, Bhupen Khakkar, P.T. Reddy, K.P.Shekhawat, K.G. Subramanyam, Krishna Khanna, Ganesh Paine, Vivan Sundram. ( 12 Periods )
Unit tests : Two unit tests of 15 marks each duration of at least one hour to be conducted by the teachers concerned. Every unit test has to be conducted after completion of two units.
Quiz / Group Discussions to be conducted by the teachers concerned ( 10 marks )
Seminar / Presentation / Project ( 10 marks )
Recommended Readings :
· Modern art in Indian – A.C. Mukharjee
· Encyclopedia of modern art – Vikas Publication
· Studies in modern Indian art – Ratan Parimoo
· Contemporary Indian Artists – Geeta Kapoor
· Art of modern India – Aziz Kurtha and Balraj Khanna ( London 1998 )
· Bhartiya adhunik chitrakala ka itihas – Mamta Chaturvedi
· Indian modern and contemporary art – P.N. Mago
· Adhunik chitrakala ka itihas – R.V. Sakhalkar
· Adhunik bhartiya chitrakala ka itihas – G.K. Aggarwal
· The story of Indian Art – S.K. Bhattacharya ( 1996 )
· Samkaleen kala : sandarbh aur ishiti – K.N. Kakkar ( L.K.A. Delhi )
· Adhunik bhartiya chitrakala ka vikas : Eik Antarang Adhyan – Vinod Bhardwaj
· Bhartiya samkaleen kala : eik pariprekshya – P.N. Mago
· Samkaleen bhartiya kala – Mamta Chaturvedi
· Adhunik Bhartya kala ke adhar stambh – Prem Chand Goswami ( Jaipur )
· Kala chintan – M. Khanna ( Lucknow L.K.A )
· Modern art aur Bhartiya chitrakar – Rajendra Bajpai
· Bhartiya kala aur Kalakar – E. Kumaril Swami
· Bharat ki Chitrakatha – Rai Krishna Das
Course VII ( Theory )
Philosophy of Art ( Western ) Max Marks :100
Internal : 50
External : 50
Unit I – Study of philosophy of western art and relationship between Aesthetics principles and concepts. ( 12 Periods )
Unit II – Thinkers – Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine ( 12 Periods )
Unit III – Thinkers – Lessing, Baumgarten, Kant, Hegal ( 12 Periods )
Unit IV – Thinkers – Roger Fry, Tolstoy, Croche, Santayana ( 12 Periods )
Unit V – Thinkers – Clive Bell, Freud, Sussane Langer ( 12 Periods )
Unit tests : Two unit tests of 15 marks each duration of at least one hour to be conducted by the teachers concerned. Every unit test has to be conducted after completion of two units.
Quiz / Group Discussions to be conducted by the teachers concerned ( 10 marks )
Seminar / Presentation / Project ( 10 marks )
Recommended Readings :
· A modern books of aesthetics – Melvin Radar
· Western aesthetics – K.C. Pandey
· The meaning of art – Herbert Read
· Principles of art – R.G. Collingwood
· Aesthetic theory of art – Ranjan K Ghosh
· Saundarya – Rajendra Bajpai
· Kala ka darshan – Kumar Vimal
· Kala ke darshnik tattva – Surender das Gupta
· Kala chintan : saundaryatmak Vivechana – Vidhu Kaushik
· Swatantra Kala shastra – K.C. Pandey
· Saundarya shastra – Mamta Chaturvedi
· Saundarya Shastra – Ram Lakhan Shukal
Course VIII ( Practical )-Thematic Composition
Lay-out of paintings, subject study of paintings, techniques of paintings, study of paintings
Medium – oil, water, Acrylic
Size – 15inch * 22inch
Time – 9 hours in three sittings
Sessional – 3 plates in colour,Sketch book containing 50 sketching
Internal assessment and submission - 50 marks
External assessment – 50 marks
Course IX ( Practical )-Life Painting full figure
Life study in monochrome. Study of human figure in different poses from different angles from live models.
Medium – oil, water, Acrylic
Size – 15inch * 22inch
Time – 9 hours in one sittings
Sessional – 3 plates in colour,Sketch book containing 50 sketching
Internal assessment and submission - 50 marks
External assessment – 50 marks
Course X ( Practical )-Folk Art in any one style
Warli, Madhubani, Kalamkari, Kohbar and Pat Chitran
Medium – oil, water, Acrylic
Size – 22inch * 15inch
Time – 12 hours in 4 sittings
Sessional – submission of three paintings and 50 sketches.
Internal assessment and submission - 50 marks
External assessment – 50 marks
