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DEFINITION
The Fine Arts embrace all the disciplines related to drawing, sculpture, conception on wide variety of supports (paper, canvas, stone, metal, magnetic supports...). The aim is to produce a two or three dimensions artistic work achieved in aesthetic and functional ways by using traditional technical skills or recent technologies. The training in Fine Arts aims at preparing the student to participate efficiently to the development of the industrial product and the modern communication ways by using all the available technologies. The training aims also to grant the would-be artists expression modes assuring them professionalism, in optimal conditions.

ADMISSION
The access to the first cycle can be made according to one of the two following modes:
a) The academic orientation system (baccalaureate all sections and specially "Letters" baccalaureate ).

b) The reorientation competitive examination which is open to those who have obtained their baccalaureate in the two years preceding the competitive entrance. The applicants are submitted to the following tests:

  • Written test of general culture and/or philosophy.

  • Oral test and/or practical one in plastic arts.

REQUIRED SKILLS
The student in Fine Arts is someone who has an artistic calling and a gift for creativity. Moreover, he has the sense of communication, an esthetic sensitivity (colors and shapes), an interest for the relations between the human being and his natural and social environment. Last, he combines the scientific methodology and the creative processes synthesizing, thus, the spirit of delicacy and geometry.

LENGTH OF STUDIES
After a one-year common courses in Fine Arts, the student is orientated, in the limit of the available places, to one of these two options:
a) Arts and crafts (arts et métiers) in Tunis.
b) Plastic arts.
 
   A- Arts and Crafts
Lasting five years (including the common trunk), the studies are divided in two cycles:

  • A two-year first cycle at the end of which a first cycle diploma in Arts and Crafts (DEUPC) is delivered.

  • A three-year second cycle, including a semester of practical training, at the end of which a National Diploma in one of the following specialities is delivered:

    1- Art, handicraft, industry.
    2- Art and communication.
    3- Indoors architecture and scenography.

  B- Plastic Arts
Lasting five years, including the common trunk, the studies are divided in two cycles:

  • A two-year first cycle at the end of which a first cycle diploma in Plastic Arts (DEUPC) is delivered.

  • A three-year second cycle, including a semester of practical training at the end of which a B.A degree (Maîtrise) in Plastic Arts is delivered.

The attendance in workshops, integrated courses and trainings is compulsory. Any absence superior to 10% of the hours reserved to a teaching or training, leads to the automatic exclusion of the student from the main examination session related to the concerned teaching.

EXAM REQUIREMENTS
The teachings are submitted to continuous control and to two-session examinations:

  • A main session or half-yearly one, depending on the case.

  • A remedial session open to the students who failed in the main session. This session is organized one week at least after the announcement of the main session's results at the end of the academic year.

The continuous control counts for 50% in the general average and the examination for 50%.
To succeed, the student needs to obtain a general average equal or superior to 10/20 in all the teachings to which he was submitted.

FIELDS OF STUDY
The Fine Arts studies are made up of workshops, integrated courses and trainings. Each year comprises compulsory modules stretching on one or two semesters. It's about:

  • Expression and plastic techniques (drawing, colors, computer science, shapes, calligraphy...).

  • Human and social sciences: history of art, initiation to the history of aesthetics, the plastician vocabulary, cultural sociology, research's methodology, marketing, communication...

PROFESSIONAL PROSPECTS

  • Teaching

  • Publishing, advertisement, marketing
  • Preservation and restoration in museums
  • Infography
  • Professional creative

ACQUIRED SKILLS

  • Mastering of the artistic skills and knowledge, both traditional and modern.

  • Conception and achievement of communication and advertisement plans.
  • Conception of decoration plans.

INSTITUTIONS
- Tunis Higher Institute of Fine Arts
   Address : Route de l'Armée Nationale, Tunis 1005
   Phone   :  71 564 930 / 71 571 898          Fax : 71 568 291

- Sousse Higher Institute of Fine Arts
   Address : Place de la Gare, Sousse 4000

- Sfax Higher Institute of Fine Arts
   Address : 34, Rue du 5 Août, Sfax 3002
   Phone   : 74 299 511          Fax : 74 297 286

- Nabeul Higher Institute of Fine Arts
   Address : Avenue Ali Belahouane, Nabeul 8000