Consider the following statements about the Rajasthani schools of painting.
(A) Accounts from the Bahis, royal archival day-to-day diaries, and numerous inscriptions on Bikaner paintings make Bikaner one of the best documented schools of painting.
(B) The drawing of elephants is, particularly, unsurpassed in both Bundi and Kota.
(C) Eighteenth-century Bundi paintings imbibed Mughal aesthetics, such as love for bright and vivid colours.
(D) Bundi artists painted women as petite, with round faces, sharp noses and a ‘pinched’ waist.
How many of the statements given above are correct?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Three
Three statements, (A), (B) and (D), are correct; (C) is not.
(A) Accounts from the Bahis, royal archival day-to-day diaries, and numerous inscriptions on Bikaner paintings make Bikaner one of the best documented schools of painting. — Correct. The Bahis and the many inscriptions on its paintings make Bikaner one of the best documented schools.
(B) The drawing of elephants is, particularly, unsurpassed in both Bundi and Kota. — Correct. Both Bundi and Kota excel in drawing elephants.
(C) Eighteenth-century Bundi paintings imbibed Mughal aesthetics, such as love for bright and vivid colours. — Incorrect. The love for bright and vivid colours came from Deccani aesthetics, not Mughal.
(D) Bundi artists painted women as petite, with round faces, sharp noses and a ‘pinched’ waist. — Correct. This is Bundi’s own standard of feminine beauty.
NCERT (2026-27): “Bikaner School of Painting …Accounts from the Bahis, royal archival day-to-day diaries, and numerous inscriptions on Bikaner paintings make it one of the best documented schools of painting.” “Bundi School of Painting …Bundi paintings during the eighteenth century appear to have imbibed Deccani aesthetics, such as love for bright and vivid colours. …The drawing of elephants is, particularly, unsurpassed in both Bundi and Kota. Bundi artists had their own standards of feminine beauty — women are petite with round faces, receding foreheads, sharp noses, full cheeks, sharply penciled eyebrows and a ‘pinched’ waist.” |