Fine Arts (Graphic Arts)

The Graphics study program aims at providing the students with graphics history and technique knowledge, the theoretical understanding and the technical skills needed to succeed as professional artists, illustrators and graphic-designers.
Depending on their skills and aspirations, students have the opportunity to choose between the three study directions: advertising graphics, animation, and easel graphics.
The advertising graphics study direction involves studying book illustrations and advertising materials, offering a professional training with immediate applicability in the labor market. Both traditional techniques and contemporary approaches – such as the installation type, the book object, innovative display forms etc. – are studied.
Within the easel graphics study direction, addressing specific disciplines is carried out following several main directions, aiming at enhancing the knowledge on the classical, modern and contemporary composition principles. The composition issues are also addressed from the perspective of the interdisciplinary visual art types, taking into account the artistic language globalization phenomenon and the technique syncretism of contemporary art.
The study program dedicated to animation proposes studying digital 3D animation techniques, traditional and digital 2D animation techniques, providing professional skills oriented toward film projects, video games, and advertising materials development.
The material basis available for this specialization is complex: traditional engraving laboratory, equipped with large manual presses; modern engraving laboratory with serigraphic and offset equipment; computer laboratory with Apple computer network; graphics tablets; image editing, two-dimensional and three-dimensional animation software; Elite Panaboard interactive projection system; drawing and composition classrooms equipped with furniture and accessories meant to facilitate the study of specialty traditional techniques.
During the BA studies, followed by a professional MA in graphics, the students are involved in individual or collective exhibiting activities, local or itinerant, and participate in national or international competitions which, in many cases, materialize in prizes.