Visual representation BA Bachelor's
This is for you
your manual skills are good, you are interested in fine arts, your way of thinking is creative and original, and you would like to develop your skills on a high level.
Short description
In addition to traditional genres such as graphic and painting techniques, we introduce applicants to today’s diverse image creation methods: comic art, visual storytelling used in cinema such as storyboards, and the intersection of design and visual arts. Our students not only create illustrations for literary works but are also capable of planning the entire book.
Our program places special emphasis on freehand drawing. In the Visual Representation program, you can study artistic anatomy to perfect your drawing skills. We focus extensively on helping you discover your unique voice and artistic style under the mentorship of your instructors. Through drawing and design practices, we simultaneously develop your manual and digital skills, as well as your creativity.
We provide a solid foundation for navigating both traditional/analog and digital visual worlds, utilizing the possibilities of new technologies. We offer opportunities for you to learn modern image creation methods through mediums like fine art photography, video, and installation art.
In the framework of this program you may specialize yourself as a cartoonist beginning from the 3rd semester.
What can you study with us?
- basic computer graphic programs, contemporary imagery techniques and theories
- we will develop your manual skills and visualization methods
- you will be able to make not only illustrations for a novel but design the whole book
- you can create not only oil on canvas painting, but motion picture, interactive installations, and objects.
- we will provide you with deep theoretical knowledge
Structure of the program
First year:
Traditional visual art techniques
Materials and procedures of painting and graphics
Second year:
3D plastic and computer practical
tasks – physical and virtual variations of visualization in space, installation design
Third year:
Artistic features of motion picture besides static picture opportunities offered by artistic photo and video
Specialization
- Painting, Graphic Art, Illustration - Comics
NOTE: Specializations are launched only if the minimum of 5 students wish to join the specialization
HEAD OF PROGRAM
SÁNDOR RÁCMOLNÁR DLA
Associate Professor, Munkácsy Mihály Award- winning Graphic Artist
VISUAL REPRESENTATION SPECIALIZATION
Our training emphasizes on the development of manual skills, the acquisition of traditional and new technologies and practicing a creative way of thinking.
You might be interested in individual or duplication graphics, painting, installation art, video art, or you can deal with storyboards – visual scripts – used in filmmaking, comics and strip cartoons, the joint areas of fine arts and design, and the creative methods of contemporary art.
Career opportunities
- As an independent visual artist, painter or graphic designer
- Book designer, illustrator, Comics Artist
- Visual designer, concept artist or a creator of any other area of graphic design
- Leader of an arts workshop or creative
- Design club, or as a museum education professional
Main topics
fine arts techniques; creative visual representation studies; printmaking techniques: lino cutting, wood cutting, drypoint, etching, making lithography and silkscreen prints, Risography, visual representation and typography; painting techniques, visual representation and media art; the history and practice of visual communication; illustration design; visual culture studies; image theories; book design; book-binding, comics techniques, history of comics
Quotes
"At Metu we can meet people from all around the world coming from different cultures. At METU one can escape from the ordinary"
- Mridul Gairola from India