Observe the image and answer the following question.
In Mrinalini Mukherjee’s sculpture Vanshri, how is the figure’s face shown?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → With an inward expression and protruding lips
Option (1) As a faceless form left to bare suggestions — Incorrect. This fits M. F. Husain’s Mother Teresa, whose faceless Mother appears several times.
Option (2) With an inward expression and protruding lips — Correct. The fibre figure’s face looks inward, with protruding lips.
Option (3) As a frontal face in a linear drawing — Incorrect. This fits Jyoti Bhatt’s etching Devi, with its linear drawing of the frontal face of a woman.
Option (4) With welded linear details as facial features — Incorrect. This fits P. V. Janakiram’s copper Ganesha, where welded linear elements work as facial features.
NCERT (2026-27): “Vanshri This artwork was created by Mrinalini Mukherjee in 1994. She uses an unusual material to make this sculpture. She uses hemp-fibre, a medium that she experimented with from the early 1970s. … In this work, entitled Vanshri or ‘Goddess of the Woods’, she turns this ordinary material into a monumental form. If you carefully look at the figure’s body, you can notice that it has a face with an inward expression and protruding lips, and above all, a powerful presence of natural divinity.”
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