The Unity of Arts

A four-day multi-faceted arts festival at IGNCA provides artists, art connoisseurs an opportunity to understand, appreciate and facilitate the birth of new forms of art

There are numerous examples of architects also engaging in visual arts and visual artists designing buildings. From Leonardo da Vince to Michelangelo and Le Corbusier to Satish Gujral - all have excelled in all forms of creative expression. While architects have an eye for colour, form, texture, and space, visual artists use colours and geometries of mundane objects to craft paintings and sculpture. To further illustrate this unity of arts achieved through the integration of architecture, design and visual arts, one only has to visit the houses designed by late Satish Gujral: “To live in a house designed by him is not easy, for it is not simply brick and mortar, but is indeed a living sculpture, to hold life in all its myriad moods,” remarked a critic.