Observe the image and answer the following questions:

How many figures are depicted in the sculpture and how are they described?

1. Three, realistic and cylindrical shapes
2. Four, rock cut like and flat
3. Three, stick-like and in flat rhythmical planes
4. Four, stick-like and in flat rhythmical planes

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Answer:  Three, stick-like and in flat rhythmical planes
The sculpture depicts three figures that are stick-like and shown in flat rhythmical planes.

Cries Unheard- This is a sculpture in bronze made by Amarnath Sahgal in 1958. Although the artist only uses abstraction, in which three figures are stick-like and shown in flat rhythmical planes, yet it is easy to understand them as a family — husband, wife and child. They are shown flinging their arms above and crying out for help in vain. Through the medium of sculpture, their helplessness expressed by the hand gesture is turned into a permanent shape. It is possible for us to read this work as socialist, whereby, the artist pays homage to millions of destitute families in need of help, whose cries fall on deaf ears. None other than socialist poet, Mulk Raj Anand, wrote movingly about this work, which now is in the collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.