2651-Visual artists

Job Title: 

Visual artists

Job Description: 

Visual artists create and execute works of art by sculpting, painting, drawing, creating cartoons, engraving or using other techniques.

Tasks: 

Tasks include

  • conceiving and developing ideas, designs and styles for paintings, drawings and sculptures
  • arranging objects, positioning models, and selecting landscapes and other visual forms according to chosen subject matter
  • selecting artistic media, method and materials
  • creating representational or abstract three-dimensional or relief forms by shaping, carving and working and combining materials such as, wood, stone, clay, metal, ice or paper
  • creating representational or abstract drawings and paintings using pencils, ink, chalk, oil paints, water colours or through the application of other techniques
  • creating drawings and engraving or etching them on metal, wood, or other materials
  • creating cartoons to depict persons and events, often in caricature
  • restoring damaged, soiled and faded paintings and other art objects.
Specific Occupations: 

26511
Modeler, sculpture

26512
Artist (graphic/ layout/ paintings/ poster/ creative/ landscape/ commercial/ fashion creation)

26513
Painter, miniatures/ portrait/ picture restorer

26514
Caricaturist / Cartoonist, motion picture

26515
Engraver (creative/ artistic) /Artist, ceramic

26516
Engraver-etcher, artistic

26517
Restorer, picture

26518
Sculptor

International Careers(ISCO): 
Source Of Info: 

Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, PSCO-2131