UP PGT Drawing Syllabus 2026, Exam Pattern, Exam Date 2026
Detail Information about UP PGT has published notification 2026 for the recruitment of Drawing vacancies. Those Candidates who are Interested to the following vacancy and completed all Eligibility Criteria can read the Notification & Apply Online. In this page we provide the Complete Syllabus of this Recruitment with Latest Update Exam Pattern and the Exam Date also.
UPESSC PGT Syllabus 2026 - Overview
| Recruiting Body |
Uttar Pradesh Education Services Selection Commission (UPESSC) |
| Name of Posts |
Post Graduate Teacher (PGT) |
| Post Name |
PGT Drawing |
| Total Vacancies |
69 |
| Apply Mode |
Online |
| Category |
Syllabus and Exam Pattern |
| Examination Date 2026 |
15th December to 16th December 2026 |
| Selection Process |
Written Exam, Interview |
| Salary |
Rs. 47,600 to Rs.1,51,100/- (Pay Level-8) |
| Official Website |
upessc.up.gov.in |
UP PGT Drawing Syllabus 2026
General Studies :-
Unit 1: Current Affairs:
(i) Current Events of State, National and International Importance.
(ii) Personalities in News.
(iii) Sports.
Unit 2: Indian History,Indian Polity, Indian Economy and Indian Geography-
(i) Indian History and Indian National Movement.
(ii) Indian Constitution and polity, Legal and Constitutional Development related with
Educational System.
(iii) Indian Economy.
(iv) Basic Indian Geography, Population.
Unit 3: General Science, Information and Communication Technology:
(i) General Science, Technology and Environment in contemporary context.
(ii) Human Health and Hygiene - Vitamins, Minerals, Diseases, Deficiency diseases, Hormones and Enzymes.
(iii) Computer and Internet Terminology.
(iv) ICT uses.
(v) Development in Educational Technology.
Concerned Subject (Drawing) :-
Unit- I - Foundation of Visual Arts
Principles of Composition
Fundamentals of Painting
Six Limbs of Indian Painting
Chitrasutra / Vishnudharmottara Purana
Unit- II - Materials and methods of Visual Arts
Traditional and modern mediums in panting. (Dry Pastel, Wash Painting, Tempera, Oil Painting, Acrylic Painting)
Mural techniques (Fresco Secco & Buono)
Printmaking techniques (Woodcut, Linocut, Etching, Serigraphy)
Mix Media- (Collage, Digital painting techniques, Relief works, textural applications)
Unit-III - Aesthetics (Indian and Western Concepts)
Concept of Indian Aesthetics (Rasa theory, Dhwani, Alankara, Auchitya)
Indian thinkers (Bharat muni, Rabindranath Tagore, A. K. Coomaraswamy, Bhamaha, Vamana, Abhinavgupta, Anandavardhana)
Concept of Western Aesthetics (Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Tolstoy, Croce, Roger Fry, Freud, Susanne Langer, Clive Bell, Herbert Read)
Inter-relationship between music, poetry and painting
Unit- IV - Folk Tradition of India
Folk Painting Traditions – (Madhubani, Odisha Pattachitra, Phad, Kalamkari, Sanjhi, Saura, Kalighat)
Tribal Art (Warli, Gond Art, Bhil Art, Sohrai, Kohbar)
Ritual Art (Mandana, Aipan, Rangoli, Alpana, Sanjhi)
Folk Craft (Dhokra metal craft, Gorakhpur (Aurangabad) terracotta, Azamgarh (Nizamabad) black pottery, Molela of Rajasthan)
Unit- V - Pre-history and Proto-history of Indian Painting
Important pre-historic sites of India (Bhimbetka, Panchmari, Mirzapur, Hoshangabad)
Indus Valley Civilization (Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, Dholavira, Lothal)
Major Antiquities (Priest King, Dancing Girl, Seals, Beads)
Architectural importance and town planning of Mohenjo-daro.
Unit- VI - History of traditional and Modern Indian Painting
Ajanta cave Paintings (Cave no. 1, 2, 9, 10, 16, 17), Bagh caves paintings (techniques & subject matter)
Miniature painting traditions (Pala, Jain, Rajasthani, Mughal, Pahari.) and Company School of Paintings.
Indian Renaissance painting (Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Asit kumar Haldar, Kshitindranath Majumder, Binod Bihari Mukherjee, Sailendra Nath Dey)
Modern Indian painters (Raja Ravi Verma, Amrita Shergil, Jamini Roy, Rabindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore.)
Important artists’ groups. (Calcutta Group, Progressive Artists’ Group, Delhi Shilpi Chakra, Cholamandalam Artists’ Village)
Unit - VII - Contemporary Indian Art
Contemporary trends in 1950s & 1960s (Tayeb Mehta, Ramkumar, K. G. Subramanyam, Ganesh Pyne, Jogen Chowdhury, krishen Khanna).
Trends in abstractions, since the 1970s ( Prabhakar Barwe, Paramjit Singh, Ratan Parimoo, Ganesh Haloi, G. R. Santosh)
20th & 21st century painters (Manjit Bawa, Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh, Bhupen Khakhar, Atul Dodia, Laxma Gaur, Paramjit Singh, Subodh Gupta, Bharti Kher, Ranvir Kaleka, Jitish Kallat, R. Bist, Madanlal Nagar, Anjolie Ela Menon, Satish Chandra, Badrinath Arya, Gogi Saroj Pal, Arpana Kaur)
New Media & Installation (Nalini Malani, Vivan Sundaram, Sheba Chhachhi, Shilpa Gupta,
Subodh Gupta, Bharti Kher, Ranbir Kaleka, Navjot Altaf, Sheela Gowda.)
Unit- VIII - Pre-historic to Pre-modern, Western Art
(Lascaux Cave, Altamira, Stonehenge of England)
Egyptian Art, Aegean Art, Greek and Roman Art.
Early christian, Bizantine, Romanesque, Gothic
Renaissance paintings and their important painters (Masaccio, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgione, Titian)
Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism
Unit- IX - Major Western Modern movements
Realism (Gustave Courbet, Millet, Daumier), Impressionism (Monet, Renoir, Manet, Degas, Pissarro), Post Impressionism (Cezanne, Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Seurat).
Fauvism (Matisse, Andre Derain) Expressionism (Munch, Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Emil Nolde, Egon Schiele) Cubism (Picasso, Braque).
Constructivism (Tatlin, Rodchenko, Naum Gabo), Futurism (Boccioni, Carlo Carra). Dadaism (Duchamp, Picabia, Max Ernst). Surrealism (Dali, Max Ernst, Miro, De Chirico).
Abstract Expressionism (Pollock, De Kooning, Rothko, Newman, Clyfford Still, Krasner) Op Art(Victor Vasarely, Riley). Pop Art (Warhol, Oldenburg, Jasper Johns)
Unit- X - Post modern western Art
Minimalism (Donald Judd, Frank Stella, Carl Andre, Robert Morris) & Graffiti Art (Basquiat, Banksy)
Conceptual Art (Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner).
Land and Environment Art (Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Richard Long).
New Media, Performance & Installation Art (Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Anish Kapoor, Bruce Nauman, Ilya Kabakov, Marina Abramovic, Joseph Beuys).
UP PGT Drawing Exam Pattern 2026
Duration : 120 Minutes
Negative Marking :01
| S.No |
Subject |
No.of Question |
Marks |
| 1. |
General Studies |
30 |
90 |
| 2. |
Concerned Subject (Drawing) |
90 |
270 |
| |
Total |
120 |
360 |
Interview :- 40 MarksUP PGT Exam Date 2026 : 15th December & 16th December 2026
Starting Date of Application Form : 18th September 2026
Last Date of Application Form : 17th October 2026
Total Post : 69 
