Chitra Sante - 25th Jan 2009

What happens when you get to enjoy an extremely delicious course meal is, you enjoy it to the core in the beginning, you intend to savor every variety served, you do a great job of it till some time. By that time you are so stuffed and satisfied that you can’t take any more, you want to take more of it but you can’t! Your senses are craving for more but you are saturated! According to me THAT’s total happiness!
That’s exactly what we felt by the time we had explored the Chitra sante for 3 and half hours! :) And I get the same feeling every time I visit this event..

Chitra sante (Art fair/sale): Sante is the word for the

roadside markets many small towns and villages conduct mostly once in a week where everything you need is available and at great prices. Chitra Sante is an Art Fair that Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat - a renowned college for Art and Design – conducts once in a year for a day. You normally have more than a thousand stalls put up by Artists of all calibers and statures from students to amateurs and from experimental explorers to commercial artists. They come from different parts of Karnataka and from all over India. The purpose is to bring art close to common man and provide a great platform and exposure to lesser-known artists.

This time was no different from earlier years; there was a huge variety of art from Water colors to Acrylic to oils,
from Madhubani, Rajasthani to Mysore to Tanjore art, from Abstract to nature to heritage to even replicas of great art works. Some art was very close to handicrafts. Prices of art varied from Rs.5 to Rs.1 Crore! (Rs 10 mn).

We were a team of 6 team members from Marketing – Keshav with his Wife and baby, Bhargobi, Prathima and her Dad, Noor, Amey and Prashanth. We all had great fun watching so much art at once, exploring, understanding, discussing and resolving to go back home and make some art ourselves. (Well, unfortunately resolutions are seldom kept.. :) ) Along with that we also enjoyed some Ice-Candy and a quick snack at the Adigas.
Overall it was an experience we enjoyed to the core and a nice team event for a design team like us!