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Brief History of the college
The College of Arts and Crafts, Lucknow was founded in 1911. Mr. Nathanial Herd headd this institution as it's first Principal who emphasized on western realism in art. The design concept and the methods adapted for teaching various art and craft courses were also modelled on western pattern, ignoring Indian sensibilities. This hampered the creative growth to a great extent. It was not until the year 1925 when the need to liberalize the system was felt. This resulted into basic structural changes and some new faces could emerge. Two important influences worth mentioning at that time were that of Shri Asit Kumar Haldar and of Shri L.M. Sen, one for his association with what we broadly ascribe as traditional Indian School and the other for his academic approach. In this connection the names of Shri Brieshwar Sen, Shri Hirenmoy Roy Chowdhry, Shri Shidhar Mahapatra, Shri H. L. Merh and Shri Sudhir Ranjan Khastgir should also be mentioned as they furthered the great traditions of this College. These traditions continued, but with the beginning of the 6th decade, a few important names emerged, who made significant contribution in bringing out academic reforms, namely Shri M.L. Nagar, Shri R. S. Bisht, Shri A.S. Panwar, Shri B. N. Arya, Shri N. N. Mahaptra, Shri Mohd. Haneef, Shri U.N. Verma. The list is not exhaustive. With the advent of Shri Dinkar Kowshik as Principal and later Shri Sukhveer Singhal and Shri R.S.Bisht the College assumed wider dimensions and enlargered its perspective. To maintain its reputation as one of the major Art Institutions of the country offering highest quality of training in the field of Visual Arts, most modern concepts in terms of style, manner and techniques were adapted. A completely new generation of artists like Shri Jai Krishna Agarwal, Shri P. C. Little and Shri Satish Chandra were added in the faculty. Therefore a large number of students who graduated from this college carved out their image at National and International level in the field of visual arts. So far eighteen National Akademi Awards have gone to the students and the teachers and two ex-principals were awarded Padma-shri besides numerous other National and International level awards and recognitions. In the year 1975 the College merged with the University of Lucknow as a constituent College and three National diploma courses were converted into degree courses. The College now offers Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses leading to Bachelor and Masters Degree in Painting. Applied Arts and Sculpture besides that the college also runs B.F.A. course in Textile design and Indian Traditional Sculpture, Diploma courses in Art Masters Training. Home Art and Home Crafts, Iron and Heavy Metal Work, Wood Work, Furniture Design and Certificate courses in Clay Modeling are also being run here. There is a plan to introduce new job oriented short courses in designing and also to modify some of the existing Diploma courses according to the need of the time. To impart highly professional training the College has fully equipped workshops of Graphics, Ceramics, Photography, Woodwork, Iron and Heavy Metal Work, Computer Graphics and studios for Painting, Sculpture and Commercial Art for indepth study of various branches of Visual Arts the College has full-fledged Library and Museum. The College, besides, providing residential facility to students and staff also provides facility for co-curricular activities, games and sports. The Staff and Students of this college have participated in State and National level tournaments, N.S. S. and other Arts and Cultural programmes earned laurels on numerous occasions
The college has following specialties
Department of Fine Art The Department of Fine Arts of Faculty of Fine Arts, Lucknow University exists since the inception of the institute in 1911 and has been one of the foremost in the field. The department has well equipped workshops and studios to work in different areas like Graphics, Mural, Ceramics besides conventional and modern materials of painting. We combine modern way of teaching alongwith the blend of traditional style and give emphasis on human expression and creativity. Some of the best known educationists in the history of our country, like Dinkar Kaushik, and Sudhir Ranjan Khastgir have contributed for the Department. We were the pioneer to start the wash painting in Indian style and Lucknow wash School is famous worldover one of the most significant names who emerged from here is of Frank Weslee who depicted purely Western themes in unique Indian style and was known worldover. B. N. Arya introduced the contremporary style of Wash painting. The students of the department are absorbed in various teaching institutions and many are well known artists in their stream working as a free lancer. With the ever-expanding scope of fine arts the graduates have a vast variety of area to choose from as a profession, like set designers in film industry illustrators, artists etc.
Department of Commercial Art One of the highlights of the faculty is the Department. of Commercial Arts where students strive to achieve excellence in all spheres of Applied Arts, be it Advertising Design, Illustration & Photography. These three majors are offered at U.G. and P.G. level both. Students of Applied Arts are also trained in Computer graphics and graduates from here are highly placed in 2D & 3D Animation Houses. The institute has produced many students who went on to become Art Director, Creative Head or Chief Visualizers in many top-advertising agencies of India. Besides private sector, government sector has also absorbed lots of students from Department of Applied Arts. Our institute was the first in India to introduce P.G. Course in Photography in 1997 and has bagged many international awards and several scholarships and honours in last 8 batches only. It's popularity and achievements have prompted other institues to start the same course, however our standard is yet to be matched by others. The aim of the department is to make student well aware of the present technology and inculcate skill at par with the best in the industry.
Department of Sculpture Department of Sculpture of Faculty of Fine Arts (College of Arts & Crafts. Lko.) is well known all lover India. It has produced some highly talented sculptors who contributed sighnificantly the field of Fine Arts in general and sculpture in particular. The department incorporates modern ideas with Indian sensibilities of sculpture to blend the two together and produce new concepts. We have well equipped workshops with High Temperature furnace for metal casting and modern Electrical furnace for all types of ceramic works. Conventional material like Stone carving and Bronze castings are also taught and so are the modern methods of Fibre Casting and also other modern sculpting materials. It is a job-oriented course and students are offered jobs in Govt. & private sectors. They can also start their own workshop and work independently. Bronze Casting and Stone carving are the specialty of the department and at U.G. level special emphasis is given on developing skill in students in these branches which is further enhanced in the P. G. course. The department has taken students to such expertise that the students have bagged many national, scholarships and International awards.
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