Vision
The Department of Painting aims to develop a community of students that is critical and creative in art practice. It aims to develop an engagement in contemporary visual art discourse and foster an ethically responsible, socially engaged and politically conscious means of artistic production. It aims to provide students adequately with demonstrable knowledge in all possible aspects of art-making: practical, theoretical and historical. It will help students to engage in collaborative and participatory art practices and imbibes critical and analytical thinking in them. The Painting Department envisions itself as a space for creative engagement in art education and research that fosters cultural sensitivity, innovation and embrace global perspective, alongside a commitment to Kashmirs own rich and vast cultural and folk landscape.
The Programme envisages to employ art as a tool for social and ecological responsibility through dialogue and discussions towards resilence, healing, and social change. The program aims to produce thinking and sensitive practitioners and scholars who are committed to ethical integrity, humanitarian values and social justice.
Mission
Our Mission is to:
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To offer a rigorous, studio-based curriculum that integrates practical skill development with conceptual inquiry, critical theory, and historical understanding and provide a nurturing environment for the development of students as individual and collective artistic voices through rigorous studio practice, research, and critique.
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To engage with contemporary discourses from South Asia and the global art world while remaining rooted in the region's rich visual and material cultures.
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To introduce students to socially engaged , collaborative and participatory art practices that address social urgencies through interdisciplinary methods.
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To provide students with exposure to diverse art forms, pedagogies, and mediums—including performative, and digitally-based approaches—while encouraging experimentation and innovation.
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To promote experimentation with traditional and non-traditional materials and methods.
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To foster interdisciplinary collaboration and dialogue, opening pathways for students to engage with individuals from varied academic and cultural backgrounds and contribute to an expanded field of painting and visual arts.
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To create a space for ethical inquiry and collective reflection that values humanitarian ideals, cultural memory, ecological responsibility, and decolonial perspectives.
Core Values
Institute of Music and Fine Arts