Nandalal Bose painted panels for the Congress session at Haripura. How were ordinary rural folk shown in these ‘Haripura Posters’?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → As lively, colourful and sketchy figures at their work
Option (1) As soft, misty figures painted in the wash technique — Incorrect. The soft, misty effect comes from the wash technique invented by Abanindranath Tagore. Bose’s Haripura panel Tiller of the Soil uses thick tempera in a bold cursory style.
Option (2) As figures in dull yellow on a brick-red background — Incorrect. Dull yellow figures on a brick-red background belong to Jamini Roy’s Woman with Child. They emulate the terracotta relief of his home village in Bankura.
Option (3) As figures built out of Cubist geometric patterns — Incorrect. Building interiors made of Cubist geometric patterns belong to the paintings of Gaganendranath Tagore.
Option (4) As lively, colourful and sketchy figures at their work — Correct. The posters showed rural folk busy at work as lively colourful sketchy figures.
NCERT (2026-27): “Shantiniketan — Early modernism …Famously called the ‘Haripura Posters’, they depicted ordinary rural folks busy in various activities — a musician drumming, a farmer tilling, a woman churning milk, and so on. They were painted as lively colourful sketchy figures and shown as contributing their labour to nation building. These posters echoed with Gandhi’s socialist vision of including marginalised sections of Indian society through art.” |