Tbilisi State Academy of Arts is the oldest higher art academic institution, and thus, the oldest art University in the most easterly point of Europe. It, in the very core of the subject, expresses the confluence of cumulative knowledge, gained experience and tendencies in the field of visual art. It’s the kind of a center for classifying and systemizing, where there’s organically tied the tendencies and traditions, being established in Eastern and Western visual culture. It doesn’t mean that it’s only confluence or the kind of a bridge- transitional transcultural area, but primarily it, itself, is the organic member of the Eastern-Western cultural consciousness synthesis.
Source: Art Education.