Updated On: 09 July, 2013 02:12 AM IST | | Ruchika Kher
Art as a medium has purpose and benefits that are fare more deeper than that of being the domain of aficionados and style icons. Experts and therapists across Mumbai are increasingly using art therapy to help people with several conditions and disorders ranging from schizophrenia and autism to depression. Ruchika Kher gets closer to this canvas
“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colours flowers, so does art colour life,” author John Lubbock had subtly but effectively elucidated the essence of art in these lines as he focussed on the context of art being integral to life.
