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Syllabus Designer in Archaeology Dept: 270/2025 Syllabus Kerala PSC.DETAILED SYLLABUS FOR THE POST OF DESIGNER IN ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT (CATEGORY NO.270/2025) (Total 100 Marks)

A Hundred Years of Archaeology

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MODULE – 1 (10 Marks)

Fundamentals of Visual Art

Basic concepts Line, Colour, Form, Texture, Space, Volume, Movement, Light and
Shade.
Elements of Design – Unity, Harmony, Balance, Proportion, Contrast, Variety,
Emphasis, Pattern and Rhythm
Different types of Perspectives

Linear Perspective, Aerial Perspective or Atmospheric Perspective, Curvilinear
Perspective.
Elements of Perspectives
View Point, Horizon Line, Vanishing Point, Orthogonal Lines, Ground Plane.
Philosophical aspects of Perspective.
Concept of Gestalt Theory.
Chiaroscuro and its important artists.
Form and content in art.

MODULE – 2 (10 Marks)

Different Methods and Techniques of Painting

Process and techniques of important artists of Italian wet fresco.
Various techniques of oil painting, especially Alla Prima and Sfumato and the
important artists.

Process and techniques of traditional Kerala mural paintings and Ajanta paintings.
Techniques and methods of various miniature traditions in India.
European stained-glass paintings.

Process and importance of early natural pigments like Red, Blue, Yellow, Purple,
Green, Black and White.

Important mural paintings of Nandalal Bose, Benod Bihari Mukherjee and K. G.
Subramanyam Concept and process of Mexican Muralists.

MODULE – 3 (10 Marks)

Process and techniques of various print making methods

Lino cut, Wood cut, Engraving, Intaglio, Mezzotint, Screen printing, Etching,
Lithograph, Cyanotype, Collagraph.
History Printmaking
Japanese Printmaking and its important artists.
Oleographs of Raja Ravi Varma
Process of Lithograph printmaking.

MODULE – 4 (10 Marks)

Introduction to Archaeology

Definition of Archaeology
History of Archaeology
Scope and Ethics of Archaeology
Important Archaeological sites in India

MODULE – 5 (10 Marks)

Photography

Complete process of black and white photography.
Evolution of Photography,
What is pin hole camera.
Exposure triangle: ISO, Shutter Speed, Aperture
White balance, focus and metering modes
Composition techniques (Rule of thirds, framing etc)
Light modifiers and reflectors

Backdrop setup and maintenance
Tripod, light stand and grip equipment usage
Photo retouching techniques
Colour correction and grading
Background removal and replacement
Layer management and masking 9Photoshop or similar tools)
Knowledge of file formats (JEPG, TIFF, PNG, RAW)
Basic knowledge of vector and raster image differences.
Importance of Bauhaus School

MODULE – 6 (10 Marks)

Illustration

History of illustration, Important Illustrators in India and Kerala, Illustration for news
paper and magazines, new techniques of stylised illustration, Illustrations for
outdoor medias like posters and hoardings, Story board, Merits and demerits of AI
illustrations.

MODULE – 7 (10 Marks)

Lettering and Typography

History of scripts, Different types of fonds in English and Malayalam, Importance of
fonds in designing, Developments of typography, Importance of typography in a
design, Serif and Sans – Serif Fonds, History of Calligraphy.

MODULE – 8 (10 Marks)

Graphic Design

Indoor Design, Out Door Design, Computer Graphics
History of Graphic Design
History of Advertising
Lay out
History and developments Posters in Europe

MODULE – 9 (10 Marks)

European Art – Mannerism to Modernism

Mannerism – Jacopo Pontormo, Rosso Florentino, Parmagianino, Antonio da
Correggio, Giulio Romano, Agnolo Bronzino, Jacopo Tintoretto, El Greco, Benvenuto
Cellini.

Baroque – Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, Diego Velasquez, Frans
Halls, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Johannes Vermeer, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain.
Rococo – Thomas Gainsborough, Francois Boucher, Jean-Honore Fragonard,
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo,

Characteristics of Rococo architecture and design.
Neoclassicism – Jacques – Louis David, Ingres, Antonio Canova, Giovanni Paolo,
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Angellica Kauffman.
Romanticism – Caspar David Friedrich, Eugene Delacroix, Philip Otto Runge, J. M.
W. Turner, John Constable, William Blake, Theodore Gericault, Francisco Goya,
Thomas Cole.
Academic Art.
Realism – Jean – Baptiste- Simeon Chardin, Gustave Courbet, Jean – Francois Millet,
Camille Corot, Honore Daumier, Thomas Eakins.

Impressionism – Claude Monet, Pierre- Auguste Renoir, Edward Manet, Alfred
Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt.
Post Impressionism – Paul Gaugin, Vincent Van Gogh, George Seurat, Odilon
Redon, Paul Signac,
Henri de Toulouse – Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Edgar Degas.
Modernism – Fauvism, Cubism, Conceptual Art, Dadaism, Der Blaue Reiter,
Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Futurism, Surrealism, Minimalism, Naïve
Art, Pop Art, Op Art

MODULE – 10 (10 Marks)

Software Knowledge

Various software using in Design
Graphic Design and Illustration – Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator,
CorelDRAW, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo etc

Layout and Publishing – Adobe InDesign, Affinity Publisher, QuarkXPress etc
Web Design – Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, Framer, Web flow etc

Motion Graphics, Video Editing and Animation – Adobe After Effects, Adobe
Premier Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Blender etc
3D Modelling, Animation and Rendering – Blender, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk
3ds Max, Cinema 4D, ZBrush, etc

Typography and Fond Creation – FontLab, Glyphs, RoboFont, Calligraphr
Presentation and Visual Communication – Microsoft Power Point, Keynote,
Canva, Visme etc

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