Observe the image and answer the following question.
Identify the style of artwork which the sculptor had used.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Modern Art
The sculpture is Triumph of Labour by Debi Prasad Roy Chowdhury, made for Chennai in 1959. It belongs to the modern art of India, and shows real men with their muscles, bones and veins.
Option (1) Modern Art — Correct. It is the work of a modern Indian sculptor, whose subject is the labour of ordinary men.
Option (2) Abstract Art — Incorrect. Abstract art moves away from showing figures as they look, and works with shapes and colours. Here every figure is shown as it really looks.
Option (3) Pop Art — Incorrect. Pop art takes its images from advertisements, comics and popular culture. Nothing of that kind is here.
Option (4) Folk Art — Incorrect. Folk art is the traditional art of a community, such as Mithila or Warli painting. This is one artist’s monumental bronze.
NCERT (2026-27): “Triumph of Labour This is an open air large-scale sculpture in bronze made by Debi Prasad Roy Chowdhury (1899–1975). It was installed at Marina Beach, Chennai, on the eve of the Republic Day in 1959. It shows four men trying to move a rock, rendering the importance and contribution of human labour in nation building.…” “Tracing the Modern Indian Art Modern art in India may have drawn some ideas from the West but it differed from it significantly.…”
Triumph of Labour |
