![]() The whole area is maintained very well and so are the rest rooms. So we could complete our visit fast and spent more time in the Exhibition area which houses many pictures, objects and exhibits related to Patel's childhood, youth and later days. Even for taking lift inside the statue area to go to viewing gallery, express ticket holders get priority. The express tickets, though 3 times costlier than normal tickets, are useful particularly for senior citizens, as they do not have to wait in long Q. This place is nearly 100 km away from Vadodara and as visitor reaches the reception area, he has to take shuttle buses for going to different attractions. As our visit was to be on a Sunday, I did online booking of Express tickets. The whole statue can be divided into 4 zones - first mezzanine floor housing with exhibition, garden and roof etc, 2nd zone extending till the statue's height, third one till viewing gallery and fourth one of head and shoulders which not accessible to visitors. ![]() The statue of Unity is 182 meters tall atop a 52 meter base. Of course nearby Sardar Sarovar Dam had been in existence before the construction of this statue costing nearly 3000 crores mostly by public donation and is a great attraction on its own. The complete construction of the statue along with resting places, restaurant and development of many nearby attractions like Valley of flowers, gardens etc have taken nearly four years. I have been planning a visit of the statue since 2018 November, when it was opened to public. Thus this Statue of Unity truly symbolizes the national, spiritual and historical values of India. The name derives its source from the fact that 562 states made free by Britishers before leaving the country were unified and merged with India by Sardar Patel's untiring efforts. He was chased out of a cooperative studio early in his career because colleagues deemed his work too commercial.Dedicated to the memory of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of modern India's founding fathers and first Deputy Prime Minister, this colossus has been named as Statue of Unity. That kind of messaging has long damaged Sutar's reputation as an artist. "Ram Sutar's heart may be in the abstract work, but his patrons were interested in political messaging, not art for art's sake." "The messages of propaganda have to be clear and can't be subtle," said Bose of the University of Texas. Some sculptures were beheaded in 2012 after she lost re-election, but nearly all have survived her defeat. She even instructed Sutar to cast in extra-thick bronze to prevent the works from being taken down or damaged by successors. The intent of Mayawati's commissions was to immortalise herself and other Dalit leaders, and that meant making sure anyone gazing upon the sculptures recognised the faces. The sculpture, a deliberate echo of the statue in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, was finally mounted on its plinth at 11:30 pm, when Mayawati happily garlanded it. ![]() Photograph: Kind courtesy RamVSutar/Facebook IMAGE: Sutar receives a Padamshree Award in 1999 from the then President K R Narayanan. I have a six-month backlog of orders just for his clay models." "We don't have time to work on modern sculpture. "My father has been doing realistic sculptures his whole life, and he will continue to do realistic sculptures," Anil Sutar said. But his son and business partner, Anil Sutar, shrugged when asked about his father's modernist ambitions. One reason for making the statue of Sardar Patel (1875-1950) so enormous is to elevate above all others, an independence leader who is not closely associated with the Nehru-Gandhi family dynasty, which still leads the Indian National Congress Party, the chief rival of Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party.ĭespite his extraordinary success, Sutar expressed profound regret in a lengthy interview about how his more modernist proposals have never been commissioned.ĭuring a tour of his studio, he took pains to show abstractions that were never purchased or realised.Īrt critics deride the almost photographic quality of his commissioned work, which is in socialist realist style. In this photo, culture minister Mahesh Sharma felicitates Sutar in Noida on October 25, 2018. ![]() ![]() IMAGE: Sutar has also been awarded with the prestigious Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony 2016 by the Union ministry of culture. ![]()
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