Observe the image and answer the following question.
In the etching in the image, the artist creates an interesting form of a woman by hollowing out the face. What does the absence of the face give the figure?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A brooding and sad expression
Option (1) An inward expression — Incorrect. An inward expression is on the face of Mrinalini Mukherjee’s fibre sculpture Vanshri.
Option (2) A brooding and sad expression — Correct. Hollowing out the face gives the woman a brooding and sad expression. She sits alone before a dilapidated wall.
Option (3) A powerful presence of natural divinity — Incorrect. A powerful presence of natural divinity belongs to Vanshri, the ‘Goddess of the Woods’.
Option (4) A sense of healing and nursing the helpless — Incorrect. Healing and nursing the helpless is the story hinted in M. F. Husain’s Mother Teresa.
Note: This topic was not named in the CUET 2026 syllabus, but it was part of the NCERT chapter. In 2025 and 2026, NTA also asked questions on topics in NCERT that the CUET syllabus did not name. So our mocks have questions from every part of the NCERT chapter, to give you enough practice. Read the whole chapter, not only the sub-topics named in the syllabus.
NCERT (2026-27): “Of Walls This is an etching made from zinc plate and printed on paper made by Anupam Sud in 1982. …Notice how she creates an interesting form of a woman by hollowing out the face. The absence of face gives it a brooding and sad expression. The painting depicts the figure of a lonely woman seated on the pavement before a dilapidated wall.”
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