B.F.A. (Painting) History of Art Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the University of Mumbai syllabus for the B.F.A. (Painting), the Revised Course in force from the academic year 2004-2005. It is still the current scheme: MU has never revised it, the University's own Faculty of Fine Art register still lists this degree as Ordinance O.5310 under Circular No. UG/210 of 2004, and the syllabus below is what MU's Summer 2026 examinations were set on.
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Syllabus for History of Art
Indian Art
- Rise of Indian Modernism-Sociological, Political & Cultural Implications in the Colonial Period Academic Art Schools.
- Raja Ravi Verma
- 1. Bombay School: Rai Bahdur Dhrendar, Pestonji, Bomanjee, K.G.Mhatre, Karmarkar, Goregaonkar, Pithavala, Taskar, Agarkar, Haldankar, Mullar.
- 2. The Bengal School: Abanindranath Tagore, Rabibdranath Tagore, Gagnendranath Tagore, Jamini Roy,- The influence of Folk Art, Shantiniketan School-Nandalal Bose. Binode Behari Mukhergee, Ram Kinkar, Amrita Sher-Gill, S.B.Palshikar.
- 3. Progressive Artists Group-Mumbai: K.H.Ara, M.F.Hussain, Gade, F. N. Souza, Raza, Sadanand Bakre, K.K.Hebbar, Chavda, S.N.Bendre, S.B.Palshikar D.G.Kulkarni, Baburao Sadwelkar, Harkishanlal, P.A.Dhond, Mohan Samant.
- 4. Bombay Group: N.S.Bendre, Y.K.Shukla, Ahiwasi, Almelkar, Parekh, Ravi Shankar, Mohan Samant, Gaitonde, Akbar Padamsee, Tayeb Mehta, Jehangir Sabawala, Badri Narayan.
- 5. Maharashtra Print Makers: Up to 1980.
Western Art
- Surrealism- Manifesto, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte
- Joan Miro, Paul Klee, Max Ernst
- Surrealist Sculpture
- Metaphysics and Fantasy-DeChirico, Mare Chaggal
- Kinetic Art-Alexander Calder
- Abstract Expressionism- Action Painting and Colour Field Painters
- Pop Art
- Minimalism
- Neo-Expressionism
- Rise of Installation Art, Earth Art, Textual Art, Photography and Video Art,
- Digital Art, etc- brief introduction with reference to a few artists.
- Super- Realism.
Lectures per Academic Year : 100 Hours; Tutorials per Academic Year : 04. Duration : 3 Hours; Paper : 60 marks; Term Work : 40 marks. Reproduced from the University of Mumbai's Ordinances, Regulations and Scheme of Syllabus for the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) (Revised Course), in force from the academic year 2004-2005. Wording, sub-headings and teaching hours are as printed in that syllabus. The PDF above is the syllabus's own page, unaltered.
The complete syllabus
This subject is cut from the University circular for the whole degree, which covers all four years. Open the document here if you want the whole thing rather than a single subject.