Observe the image and answer the following question.
Who is the artist of the piece of art in the image?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Somnath Hore
The print shows five standing children with skeletal bodies, huge skulls and stick-like legs. It is Children, an etching by Somnath Hore, drawn from his memory of the Bengal Famine of 1943.
NCERT (2026-27): “Children This is a graphic print on paper done with monochromatic etching with aquatint made by Somnath Hore (1921–2006) in 1958. The experience of the Bengal Famine of 1943, left a lasting impression on him. His early sketches and drawings were spot and life drawings of hapless victims of the famine, suffering and dying peasants, sick and infirm destitute, and portraits of men, women, children and animals.”
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