Mysore/Mysuru, Sept. 3 -- Veteran critic of visual arts K.V. Subramanyam has said, the artefacts made out of terracotta (sand/ baked earth) is a medium, which is closer to the common man.

He was speaking after inaugurating Terracotta Sculpture Camp, organised by Dasara Fine Arts and Handicrafts Sub-Committee in association with Karnataka Lalithakala Academy, as part of forthcoming Dasara, at the premises of Chamarajendra Government College of Visual Arts (CAVA) in Siddarthanagar.

The camp will be held from Sept.3 to 8 and Sept. 22 to 28.

Elaborating on the pre-requisite qualities to become an artist, Subramanyam said, the artist should mainly possess the historical consciousness to define the past, present and the future. While sculpti...