Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Fine Arts

Chapter

The Modern Indian Art

Question:

Which statement about the sculpture "Cries Unheard" by Amarnath Sahgal is incorrect?

Options:

The sculpture was created in 1958.

The figures in the sculpture are depicted realistically.

Mulk Raj Anand, a socialist poet, wrote about the work.

The medium used for the sculpture is bronze.

Correct Answer:

The figures in the sculpture are depicted realistically.

Explanation:

Answer: The figures in the sculpture are depicted realistically.
The figures in "Cries Unheard" are not depicted realistically; they are stick-like and shown in flat rhythmical planes in an abstract manner.

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.