SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -Who amidst the following is renowned in the field of sculpture? Notes: Ramkinkar Baij was an Indian sculptor and painter, one of the pioneers of modern Indian sculpture.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ramkinkar built each sculpture around metal armatures – or bamboo-and-stick contraptions perhaps held together by a piece of rope – and threw clumps of the cement-laterite paste over them, which he shaped and chiselled away at as he went along.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ramkinkar Baij’s most well known sculptures ‘Santhal Family’ and ‘Call of the Mill’ are two of his most famous works.

Detailed explanation-4: -The use of cement and laterite mortar to model the figures, and the use of a personal style in which modern western and Indian pre-classical sculptural values were brought together was equally radical. With this seminal work Ramkinkar established himself as undoubted modern Indian sculptor.