CBSE Class 10 Painting Syllabus (049) for 2026-27

PAINTING Subject Code: 049 Class-X (2026-27)

Arts can broadly be classified into the Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts. It involves innovative and imaginative ways of expression in different forms using a variety of material and media.

NEP 2020 helps students to utilizes various aspects and forms of art and culture as the basis for learning concepts across subjects. A part of the thrust on experiential learning, art-integrated education, embedded in classroom transactions, not only creates joyful learning but helps in imbibing the Indian ethos through the knowledge of Indian art and culture.

Art in School Education addresses the Goals and Competencies for every student to find diverse ways of persisting and solving problems. We not only create an artwork, but also enjoy the experience of viewing and responding to many forms of cultural expression. When they create artwork together and work collaboratively, they recognize one another's strengths and develop deeper connections with the world around them. Such a process nurtures empathy, appreciation, cooperation, and trust, all of which are fundamental for developing social and human values, such as ahimsa, love, compassion, friendship, and peaceful co-existence. As a common language, the Arts bring people together and lead them to develop acceptance, understanding, and mutual respect

Art classes involve three important processes—making artwork, thinking creatively in the Arts, and appreciating all forms of artistic expression down the ages. This immersive experience of producing art improves cognition, leaving a positive and long-lasting impact on the development of aesthetic sensibilities, expression, imagination, observation, crafting skills, creativity, and students' overall confidence in their own abilities.

Aims

Through Art students should be able to connect with their culture and appreciate the diversity of artistic expressions. For an effective Art Education programme, schools must aim to achieve:

1. Joy in exploring and creating artwork: This would mean gaining a variety of aesthetic experiences and deriving joy from all forms of art.
2. Imagination and creativity: Acquiring and applying creative thinking and artistic capacities through experimentation and sustained practice in the Arts is at the heart of Art Education.
3. Empathy and sensitivity: Meaningful experience in the Arts has great potential to nurture empathy and sensitivity towards the expressions of others.
4. Understanding of connections with other disciplines: The Arts teaches appreciation of beauty in nature and the observation of details and patterns. This approach to the understanding of

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disciplines makes for aesthetic experiences in themselves.

1. Sense of belonging: Through artistic engagement, students will find connections to their own culture and traditions, as well as learn an appreciation for India's multicultural diversity and knowledge of contemporary artists and art practices.

1. Development of Aesthetic Sensibilities: Students should be able to describe the characteristics of things they find beautiful, do subjective interpretations, assess the aesthetic qualities of artwork based on the commonly accepted criteria in the Arts and expand their 'tastes' by participating in art processes.

Art Education deals with developing creativity, aesthetic sensibilities, cultural literacy which familiarizes them with significant events, figures, and works of literature, that have shaped a society and had a lasting impact on its development. This is done through the knowledge of various forms of Visual Arts

Practical & Theory

Art education at Secondary stage focus on giving Emphasis on Process, and not just Product

Artistic processes, such as ideation, creation, presentation, response, review, and making connections, ensures development of cognitive, affective, psychomotor, socio- emotional, and language while learning the Arts as thinking, making, and appreciation processes are fundamental to Art Education.

Thinking processes refer to a wide range of cognitive activities while working in the Arts. The first is the process of generating ideas and innovating while creating artwork.

The second is understanding and applying the elements of various Art forms (point, line, shape & form, colour, shape tones, texture, space.)

The third is inquiry and critical probing into art practices and aesthetic experiences. The fourth is to attempt newer, reasonable interpretations while working in the Arts.

The fifth is to connect the Arts with other knowledge as well as one's own experiences.

Making processes are related to the execution and production of artwork. These processes engage the mind and body for expressing ideas and feelings. This includes use of materials, tools, and other resources. The making processes also focus on exploring techniques, refining skills, and practicing creative improvisation while producing artwork.

Appreciation processes begin with the exposure to a wide range of art forms, artists, and their practices through structured Art sessions or through the local environment and culture. This develops an awareness of how the Arts communicate a variety of expressions. Furthermore, the process reveals how these expressions are interpreted differently by every individual. While viewing Art, one also needs to consider the social, historical, and contextual background of an artwork and its viewers. Responding to art also requires the ability to describe aesthetic experiences and share personal interpretations or viewpoints. The capacity to assess artwork and develop aesthetic judgement is also an important part of the appreciation processes. 2

All these processes are interlinked and cannot be addressed in isolation if a meaningful and complete art learning experience is desired.

Learning outcomes:

Students after studying 'Painting' as additional subject will be able to:

Enjoy paintings as a medium of expressions

Appreciate the beauty in lines, forms and colours

Know the fundamentals of Painting (Elements and Principles) and apply them in their creations.

Use painting tools and materials appropriately.

Apply pencil colours, oil pastels, poster colours, water colours etc. as a painting medium.

Differentiate between 'opaque' and 'transparent' colours as a technique.

• Refine memory and observation power through study / still life and painting composition.

<math>\blacktriangle</math> Maintain his/her painting tools, materials appropriately.

Display his/her paintings aesthetically and will learn to store them.

Apply the artistic skills of composition in day-to-day life at home and in the school 3

PAINTING Subject Code: 049 Class – X (2026-27)

Theory

Maximum Marks: 30

Time allowed: 2 hours UNIT- I: 15 Marks

Fundamentals of Visual Arts (The Elements and Principles)

Methods and Materials of Painting

Understanding and appropriate use of:

1. Tools,
2. Painting Materials - Poster Colours, Water Colours, Oil Pastels and Pencils

UNIT-II: Story of Indian Art

15 Marks

Appreciation of Indian Art covering selected paintings, sculptures and architectural glimpses

1. Paintings Bodhisattava Padmapani (Ajanta)
2. Sculpture Ashokan Lion capital (Mauryan Period)
3. Architecture Kailashnatha Temple, (Ellora, Maharashtra)
4. Indian Folk Art Paintings: Madhubani and Warli

Practical

Time allowed: 3 hours

Maximum Marks: 70

Assessment for Practical

50 marks

Painting-Composition

Painting from Memory – Simple composition in water/poster/pastel colours on given subjects based on sketching from life and nature. It may also be in abstract/semi- abstract/folk art forms.

1. Compositional arrangement including emphasis on the subject 15 marks
2. Treatment of media with an appropriate colour scheme 15 marks
3. Originality and creativity 10 marks
4. Overall impression 10 marks

Internal Assessment: 20 marks

It includes:

1. Periodic Tests -There will be three periodic tests in a year, out which the best two will be assessed. 10 marks
2. Project work - Portfolio will consist of 10 best work of colour sketches, painting compositions in water colors, poster colours, Oil pastels and in pencil colors done during the year. 10 marks

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