SEBA Class 9 Class 10 Syllabus 2025 Fine Art

Subject Code - 36
Class IX & X
OBJECTIVES :
1. To create in the pupils art awareness and to develop creative ability
and skill in drawing, painting, sculpture, graphics and applied art.
2. To enable the pupil to acquire knowledge about the
elementary history of art.
3. To help the pupil to acquire knowledge of preliminary appreciation of art.
Class-IX Full marks : 100
Theory : 50 Pass marks : 15
Time 2 hours
Practical : 50 Pass marks : 15
Theory Marks : 50 Time 2 hours
Contents Marks
Unit I : Definition of Fine Art and other Half Annual
related areas. Yearly
An introduction to Fine art,  
areas of Fine Art.
Unit II : Indian Art  
An introductory note
Cave painting
Art of Indus valley civilization
Cave painting of Ajanta
Cave art of Ellora
Temple art of Khajuraho
Temple art of Konark
Unit III : Art of Assam : An introduction.
Temple sculpture of Assam
a) Da-Porbotia
b) Modan-Kamdeva 
c) Kamakhya
e) stone sculpture, wooden
sculpture and relief on wood.
Total 50 50
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Subject Code - 36 (P)
Class IX
Practical : Mark - 50
Unit Content Half
I  Free hand sketches from their own  
environment.
 Still life study in Pencil Shading,
Water colour, Pastel and collage
medium of different geometrical
objects, flowers, fruits, utentsil,
vegetables or any object of their
own choice showing correct
perspective and proportion.
 Workshop on painting from their
own environment or imagination
using water-colour, pastel and
collage medium within the calss or
campus in a joyful manner.
 Some copy works of any Indian
classical painting and Western
masters of Renaissance, using
water colour, acrylic or oil on paper,
board/canvass etc.
II A need based design in ornamental,  
geometrical pattern specially for table
cloth, chador, gamosa, or a book cover.
III Simple composition in line, on rubber 
or soft wood and printing it with press
ink or in black and white drawing.

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Unit Content Half
IV Concept of Sculpture, in relief and 
three- dimensional form using armature
with clay or plaster of paris.
V  Batic and tie-dye if colour is 
locally available
 Concept of Stencil, Spray painting,
Glass painting and Sand painting.
 Illustration of a creative story,
greeting cards, calendar etc.
 Poster making on some value-
based message like Child labour,
Education for all, disability,
Environmental awareness
(deforestation, plantation, pollution
etc., AIDS Drug abuse, Population
explosion etc.)
Total 50 50
Suggestion for the subject teacher :
1. Classes should be conducted in a natural environment outside
the class, if possible, but within the school campus.
2. The practical class, if possible, should be allotted in the period
and for a duration of two periods at a stretch.
3. It is desirable that by the end of the academic year an art exhibition
of the works done in the year be organized internally within the
school campus. School authority may arrange this in consonance
with any school festival or school week at their convenience.
4. It is expected that students should submit one assignment of
each activity given in the syllabus for continuous evaluation.
5. Visit art galleries, museums, historical monuments etc. if
available in their locality and ask the student to submit a report
about it on the basis of their personal experience.

* Questions from each Unit/Lesson will carry marks 2-10.
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SUBJECT CODE - 36

Class - X Full marks : 100
Theory : 50 Passs marks : 15
Time 2 hours
Practical : 50 Pass maarks : 15
Theory Marks : 50 Time 2 hours
Contents Half
Unit I : The difference between fine arts  
and crafts and its need in our
life and society
Unit II: Indian Miniature painting  
1. Pala
2. Jaina
3. Rajput
4. Mughal
Modern Art in India, a historical
perspective
Unit III : Modern Art inAssam, a historical 
perspective
Unit IV: Western Art & its history 
Total 50 50

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FINE ART : PRACTICAL

Marks : 60
Contents Half
Unit I :  
 Drawing and painting of human and
animal figure with any colour (water,
acrylic, oil, pastel, sketch pen etc.)
from their own environmental subjects
like fair and festivals city-scape, village-
scape, market, mela, summer and
winter, day and night Environment-
forestation, deforestation, flood etc.
 Composition with human and animal
figure with water colour, acrylic or oil.
Unit II :  
 A need based design on different flora
and fauna in geometrical and ornamental
pattern specially for table cloth,
bedsheet, chador-mekhala, gamosa, or
any other house hold materials.
(any colour)
 Layout of a poster design on some
value based messages like Child Labour,
Education for All, Disability,
Environmental Awareness (polution,
deforestation, plantation etc.) AIDS,
Drug abuse, Population problem etc.
 Layout of a book jacket Design
 Layout of a Calendar or greeting card

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Contents Half
Unit III : 
 Illustration of a creative story with
black line sketches with pen and ink
 Drawing of flower vase, pitch etc. with
lead/wood pencil showing light and shade
Unit IV : 

Free hand sketches from our
environment with pencil, pen and brush.
Example– a man with an umbrella in a
rainy day, fish seller, bicycle rider, sitting
in a chair, drinking a coconut dub etc.
Total 50 50
Suggestions :
1. A project work on any local artist about his work. A
living-artist can be invited to the class for interaction with
the students about art and art making.
2. Classes should be conducted in a natural environment
outside the class, if possible, but within the school campus.
3. The practical class, if possible, should be alloted in the
last period and for a duration of two periods at a stretch.
4. It is desirable that by the end of the academic year an art
exhibition of the works done in the year be organized
internally within the school campus. School authority may
arrange this in consonance with any school festival or
school week at their convenience.
5. It is expected that students should submit one assignment of
each activity given in the syllabus for continuous evaluation.
Visit art-galleries, museums, historical monuments etc. if
available in their locality and ask the student to submit a
report about it on the basis of their personal experience.

* Questions from each Unit/Lesson will carry marks 2-10.
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