Modern Indian sculptors worked in many different materials. Which of the following pairs of a sculpture and its medium is correctly matched?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Ganesha — oxidised copper
Option (1) Cries Un-heard — hemp fibre — Incorrect. Amarnath Sehgal made Cries Un-heard in bronze. Hemp fibre was the medium of Mrinalini Mukherjee’s Vanshri.
Option (2) Ganesha — oxidised copper — Correct. P. V. Janakiram made Ganesha from sheets of oxidised copper.
Option (3) Vanshri — cement mixed with pebbles — Incorrect. Mrinalini Mukherjee made Vanshri in the innovative medium of hemp fibre.
Option (4) Santhal Family — bronze — Incorrect. Ramkinkar Baij made Santhal Family from cement mixed with pebbles, held in shape by a metal armature.
NCERT (2026-27): “Ganesha This is a sculpture in oxidised copper made by P. V. Janakiram in 1970, and is in the collection of NGMA, Delhi. He has used sheets of copper to create pictorial sculpture as free-standing forms, and ornamented their surface with linear elements. Metal sheets are beaten into concave planes on which are welded linear details.” |