DAPL01 – FIRST LEVEL ACADEMIC DEGREE IN PAINTING

 

Learning objectives

The courses of study for the achievement of the First Level Academic Diploma of the School of Painting have the objective of forming artistic skills and qualified professionals who, taking into account the pluralism of languages and the innovations in techniques, are able to develop their own individual research in the field of painting linked to the techniques of tradition and its elaboration in the context of the experimentation of new expressive languages.


Graduates of the School’s diploma courses must:

  • Have an adequate technical and operational mastery of methods and contents related to the fields of research in the specific fields of the arts, techniques and technologies of painting in order to progress in the acquisition of an autonomous and personal awareness of artistic production;
  • Possess methodological and critical tools adapted to the acquisition of skills in expressive languages, techniques and the most advanced related technologies;
  • Be able to use effectively at least one language of the European Union, in addition to the mother tongue, in the primary area of competence and for the exchange of general information;
  • Have adequate skills and tools for communication and information management, in particular with IT tools.

 

Employment prospects

The graduates of the School will carry out professional activities in various fields, both in the liberal arts profession, both in the field of visual arts and creative activities, as well as collaborating, in relation to the different fields of application, in the programming, design and implementation of specific interventions of painting, both in the field of instruments linked to tradition, as well as in the field of new technologies and new linguistic expressions found in national and international events.

The Academy will organise, in agreement with public and private bodies, the most appropriate internships to contribute to the achievement of specific professional skills and will further define, for each course of study, specific training models.

Access requirements

Admission requires the possession of:

  • Diploma of upper secondary school or other qualification obtained abroad recognized as suitable by the Academy in compliance with international agreements;
  • An adequate initial preparation of the student, concerning the basic knowledge necessary for the School is verified through the entrance exams.If the examination is not positive, the Academy may indicate specific additional training obligations to be met within the first Year of the course.

 

Type of access test

The entrance exam consists of:

  • Multiple-answer tests with 50% general and 50% specific questions of the School’s area of competence;
  • Proof of design from real, with or without use of living models or any other subject, as the Commission chooses;
  • The free-themed graphic test consisting of one or more elaborations made using the techniques most appropriate to the candidate. The tests will take place on the following days and will end with an aptitude interview.

 

Type of final test

The final exam consists of:

  • An artistic-project thesis consisting in the production of essays on a subject specifically assigned by the teacher of the course of the discipline to which the student is enrolled;
  • A thesis of historical-theoretical or methodological-plan or technical-artistic character, in the form of a short essay or didactic and/or exhibition plan, in one of the disciplines included in the curriculum or personal study plan.

DAPL01 – FIRST LEVEL ACADEMIC DEGREE IN PAINTING