Creative Arts and Commercial Arts as variant of your career choice
By: Bimol Bee
Submitted: 2012-02-08 05:16:19 | Word Count: 932
"Commercial and Creative Arts" is gaining greater and greater popularity every day. Creative people will always find a possibility to learn ant then share their talent with other people. Especially considering the fact, that media, advertising and publishing sectors are much in demand nowadays. To become a professional, one should train his or her skills to get a certificate, diploma and degree level at some kind of institution. Duration of the course may differ from 1 to 5 years. If you have decided, that it should become your cup of tea, you should enter at some institutes across India and abroad. But one should have some compulsory features to be sure, that he or she will be successful in this field. The most important are artistic bent and an eye for detail. Besides steadfastness and obstinate willpower is needed to make good progress in this profession.
Painting, sculpting, applied art, graphic interior design, ceramic design, mural design, metal craft, pottery design are an integral part of Commercial fine arts. One should understand that the competition level is very high nowadays, so it is of a vital importance to get training as a course. Firstly, it will help to get a proper level of knowledge and will give the technical edge and finesse which is required to survive in this cruel world. At the institute one can get Bachelors Degree and Post Graduation Degree. Successful passing The Higher Secondary Examinations or 10+ 2 will give you the possibility to get a Bachelors Degree. Graduating in Fine Arts is a must for acquiring a Post Graduation Degree in Commercial Fine Arts accordingly.
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There are a great number of premier institutes in India which can provide a person with a necessary level of knowledge in Commercial Fine Arts. The most popular of them are: Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art (Mumbai), Faculty of Fine Arts (Baroda), Kala Bhavan, Shantiniketan, Jamia Millia Islamia (New Delhi) and College of Art (New Delhi).
Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art is situated in Mumbai. It has four departments which provide training for different types of Degree and Diploma Courses. It is a state government college. The Department Of Painting offers BFA (Painting) 4 years, Post Degree MFA(Painting ) 2 years, MFA (Painting) (by papers) in Portraiture, MFA (Painting) in Graphic Art, MFA (Painting) in Creative Painting. The Department Of Sculpture And Modelling offers BFA (Sculpture) 4 years and Diploma Sculpture and Modelling 4 years. The Department Of Arts And Crafts offers BFA (Craft- Metal Work) 4 years, BFA (Craft - Textile Design) 4 years, BFA (Craft- Interior Decoration) 4 years and BFA (Craft - Ceramics) 4 years. The Department Of Art offers Teacher Training Art Teacher's Diploma ( A.T.D.) 2 years, Diploma in Art Education (Dip. A. ED.) 1 year and Art Master Certificate Course (part-time) 1 year.
In Pune one can find Symbiosis Institute of Design which offers the next degree programs: Bachelor of Design (B. Des) in Communication Design, Bachelor of Design (B. Des) in Product Design, Bachelor of Design (B. Des) in Fashion Communication and Bachelor of Design (B. Des) in Fashion Design. The main idea of this institute is to give an optimum mix of traditional skills, new media skills and soft skills.
There are also a lot of another Institutes which offer courses in fine arts. They are: Jamia Milia Islamia, Loyola College, Amity University, University of Calcutta, Rabindra Bharati University, International Institute of Fine Arts, Apeejay College of Fine Arts, Aligrah Muslim University, University of Jammu, Animation and Fine Arts Academy, Anna University and the University of Delhi.
There are a lot of possible variants for work after acquiring a Degree or Diploma in fine arts, commercial arts or creative arts. Firstly they can work as freelancers, which open up a wide range of possibilities and a great variety in projects they can choose. Publishing industry also allow a number of vacancies for specialists in drawing, such as illustrators, cartoonists, and designers. Such vacancies as graphic artists, designers, visualizers and creative directors are possible for those, who are good at applied art. Almost all spheres in our life need a trained artists. Art studios, advertising companies, fashion houses can not exist without highly professional artist. Besides, there are a lot of related spheres, which are closely connected with art - teaching, direction, photography, television, clothing and fashion, on-line services, software companies, manufacturers, promotion and product design, art direction for magazines, etc.
Artists are also in demand in the television and media field. These are designers of non-verbal presentations for television programmes, involving trade figure analysis, election results, etc. In government organizations a commercial artist are needed. Their duty is to design stamps and letter heads. In addition experts in commercial fine arts as "Graphic Equalisers" are required for Software firms in India.
There are also a great number of possibilities for fine arts artist beyond the borders of the country. Exhibitions are considered to be one of the most widespread means to popularize somebody's works and earn money, selling them on the auctions. Working as workshop managements on fine arts is also good decision. Art critics and review writers for various art magazines are strongly demanded abroad. In conclusion, one can see that there are lots of options for trained and experienced artists in fine arts, commercial arts and creative arts. Good institute can provide a high level of education, which will help to find a proper job and gain popularity in India or even all over the world.
