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Master of Arts
Specialise your Artistic career in Italy!
The Master of Arts in Fine Arts is the right choice!
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Become an Artist
Become an Artist

Discover how to become an Artist through hands-on workshops with a multidisciplinary approach, in a strongly stimulating and practical environment.

Continuous Deepening
Continuous Deepening

Students will have the opportunity of studying in an in-depth manner all of the practical and theoretical aspects related to contemporary art.

Improve Your Career
Improve Your Career

The course enriches and enhances the preparation of artists, creative professionals and cultural workers.

RUFA is the right place to refine your talent

The Workshops and Contests are led by professionals and artists of international renown.
You will become a multidisciplinary figure who can work in many areas of arts: painting, performance, sculpture, printmaking.
The Master of Art in Fine Arts offers the chance of taking part in internships, trainings and talks.
You will partecipate in great events and exhibitions and you will create your own ones.

Study plan for the master of arts in Fine Arts

First-year study plan
Painting

The Painting curriculum focuses on the history and mechanisms that originate painting, elaborating them through the study of fundamental subjects such as iconography and anatomical drawing, phenomenology of contemporary arts, art management. But at the same time it also enables students to tackle innovative forms of expression, be they graphic, pictorial, plastic or technological.

- Iconography and anatomical drawing
- Engraving techniques and printmaking
- Painting 1
- Visual arts techniques and technologies
- Performative techniques for visual arts
- Illustration
- Psychology of art
- Art pedagogy and teaching methods
- Language and interpersonal skills
- Internships
- Workshops

Painting specialisation in Performance Art

The Specialization in Performance Arts offers a comprehensive approach to both the practical and theoretical dimensions of performance. This program is designed to offer students tools to develop a profound understanding of the body in time and space, which is central to performance art and to facilitate the production of live works in front of the audience. By combining traditional and contemporary methods, the curriculum equips students with the tools necessary to navigate the physical and conceptual challenges unique to this medium. Students are encouraged to develop a personal artistic language while engaging with performance as an evolving form of contemporary art. They are challenged to address issues of identity, politics, and the human experience, using live art as a platform for experimentation and boundary-pushing creative practices

- Iconography and anatomical drawing
- Painting 
- Multimedia Installations
- Video Installations
- Visual arts techniques and technologies
- Performative techniques for visual arts
- Psychology of art
- Art pedagogy and teaching methods
- Language and interpersonal skills
- Internships
- Workshops

Sculpture

Through the Sculpture curriculum the student learns to dominate matter and space, and finds his/her artistic voice by developing a personal language; learning at the same time to fit into the contemporary art scene by studying specific subjects such as performative techniques for visual arts, sculpture techniques, psychology of art.
The Master of Arts is equivalent to a University Master's Degree.
This course is taught only in English

- Iconography and anatomical drawing
- Engraving techniques and printmaking
- Sculpture 1
- Sculpture techniques
- Psychology of art
- Digital modeling techniques - computer 3D
- Performative techniques for visual arts
- Art pedagogy and teaching methods
- Language and interpersonal skills
- Internships
- Workshops

Printmaking

The Printmaking MA prepare students to face different types of requests in the field of art and graphics, including publishing ones, relying on their ability to recognize beauty and recreate it through specific techniques and technologies; traditional and innovative studies able to broaden the horizon of professional possibilities. Printmaking, experimental plate engraving techniques, illustration, are some of the specific subjects.
The Master of Arts is equivalent to a University Master's Degree.
This course is taught only in English

- Iconography and anatomical drawing
- Engraving techniques and printmaking 1
- Printmaking
- Illustration
- Performative techniques for visual arts
- Psychology of art
- Painting
- Art pedagogy and teaching methods
- Language and interpersonal skills
- Internships
- Workshops

Second-year study plan
Painting

- Photography
- Painting 2
- Phenomenology of contemporary arts
- Digital image processing
- Art management
- Language and interpersonal skills
- Internships
- Workshops
- Elective subject
- Thesis

Painting specialisation in Performance Art

- Photography
- Visual arts techniques and technologies 2
- Phenomenology of contemporary arts
- Digital image processing
- Art management
- Language and interpersonal skills
- Internships
- Workshops
- Elective subject
- Thesis

Sculpture

- Photography
- Sculpture 2
- Phenomenology of contemporary arts
- Art management
- Language and interpersonal skills
- Internships
- Workshops
- Elective subject
- Thesis

Printmaking

- Photography
- Engraving techniques-printmaking 2
- Experimental plate engraving techniques
- Phenomenology of contemporary arts
- Digital image processing
- Language and interpersonal skills
- Internships
- Workshops
- Elective subject
- Thesis

Create your future in RUFA!

Discover all the opportunities to realise your projects.

Still in Doubt?

59.6%
is the employment rate of RUFA students one year after completing their Bachelor of Arts program (three-year Degrees).
87.5%
is the employment rate of RUFA students who complete their studies through a Master of Arts (Master’s Degree).
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ABOUT RUFA

Enjoy an environment full of motivation and opportunities, express your creativity and design your own professional path.

RUFA believes in human and artistic relationships, respecting individuals, diversity, sex, ethnicity, gender. All educational and extra-curricular activities are conceived on the basis of a sustainable approach, it allows us to realise projects and initiatives in line with the global vision.

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