The Modern Indian Art
Modern Indian sculpture
Look at sculpture from all sides.
D. P. Roy Choudhury's bronze Triumph of Labour (Marina Beach, Chennai, 1959) shows four muscular men moving a huge rock. It is academic realism, celebrating labour on a high pedestal, in the place where statues of kings used to stand.
Ramkinkar Baij's Santhal Family (1937), made of cement and pebbles on a metal frame at Kala Bhavana, is regarded as India's first public modernist sculpture. It stands on a low pedestal, so it shares our space.
Amarnath Sehgal's bronze Cries Unheard (1958) shows a stick-like family raising their arms for help. The writer Mulk Raj Anand wrote about it.
P. V. Janakiram's Ganesha (1970) is made of beaten copper sheets, with welded linear details, inspired by South Indian temple sculpture.
Mrinalini Mukherjee's Vanshri (1994), 'Goddess of the Woods', is made of knotted fibre: a material once dismissed as mere craft, made monumental.
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