Częstochowa, Poland

Painting

Malarstwo

Bachelor's
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⇑Painting at UJD

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: arts
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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University website: www.en.ujd.edu.pl

⇑Why study Painting at UJD?

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Why study it:

Painting at Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa (UJD) is a three-year Bachelor's programme (first-cycle) with a general academic profile and the easel painting specialisation, taught in English at the Faculty of Arts and leading to the title of licencjat sztuki (Bachelor of Arts). It prepares you for independent artistic work and for active participation in the art market.

Programme: classic techniques and new media

The syllabus combines classic easel and architectural painting techniques with broadly understood contemporary painting: new media, scenography, graphics, photography, intermedia and the basics of interior design. Workshop education covers easel painting, wall painting, drawing and new media in art, can be extended with additional specialisations in graphics or scenography, and is supported by the theory and history of art and culture, aesthetics and philosophy.

You are encouraged to take part in artistic and scientific activity outside the university – organising exhibitions and conferences of students and young academics, and working in student groups. Faculty members also organise international plein-airs, exhibitions, creative workshops, symposiums and conferences.

Exchanges: Erasmus partners in Europe and beyond

You can take part in exchange programmes such as Erasmus. Partner universities include, among others:

  • the University of Koblenz-Landau in Germany,
  • the Catholic University of Ružomberok and the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica in Slovakia,
  • the University of Zadar and the University of Rijeka in Croatia,
  • the Art and Design University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania,
  • the Academies of Fine Arts in Urbino and Carrara in Italy,
  • universities in Czechia, Ukraine, Vietnam, China and Tunisia.

After graduation: art, culture and advertising

You can work as an independent artist or promote and popularise art in art centres and community centres, coordinate projects in culture and art, use your skills in advertising and local government cultural institutions, or continue with second-cycle studies.

As of the 2026/27 admissions, based on the programme description at rekrutacja.ujd.edu.pl.

⇑Test: Is Painting the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. You have a blank canvas and a whole day in the studio. How do you feel?

2. How do you feel about drawing the same model or still life for hours to improve proportions and light?

3. A teacher criticises your painting in front of the group. How do you react?

4. Which experiment with materials would you try?

5. When you visit a gallery, what do you do?

6. The programme is taught in English, and you’ll paint and discuss art with students from many countries. How do you feel about that?

7. How do you feel about building your own portfolio and showing your work in exhibitions?

8. Which theme would you most like to explore in a series of paintings?

9. How do you feel about studying art history and theory alongside studio practice?

10. What motivates you most to study Painting?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used.
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I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys his paints upon his palette. Behind every Chesterton sentence there was someone painting with words, and it seemed to me that at the end of any particularly good sentence or any perfectly-put paradox, you could hear the author, somewhere behind the scenes, giggling with delight.
Neil Gaiman, in his "Mythcon 35 Guest of Honor Speech", in Mythprint (October 2004).
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The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals.
François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, No. 136. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 576-77.
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Ottoman miniature painting gave up the warmth, the whimsy, the theatricality, and the multiple meanings of Iranian art in favor of realism, which was also expressed in Ottoman maps, fortress plans and geographies.
Ira M. Lapidus in: Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History, Cambridge University Press, 29 October 2012, p. 446

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