Observe the image and answer the following question.
Who influenced Laxma Goud’s artistic style, seen in the etching in the image, particularly in its narrative mode and figuration?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → K. G. Subramanyan
Option (1) Benode Behari Mukherjee — Incorrect. He was one of K. G. Subramanyan’s own teachers at Shantiniketan. He was not Laxma Goud’s teacher.
Option (2) K. G. Subramanyan — Correct. Laxma Goud studied at M. S. University, Baroda, and his teacher Subramanyan’s experiments with the narrative mode and figuration shaped his style.
Option (3) Tyeb Mehta — Incorrect. Tyeb Mehta was a painter who kept moving between abstraction and figurative. He was not Laxma Goud’s teacher.
Option (4) M. F. Husain — Incorrect. Husain, of the Bombay Progressives, combined a modern style with Indian themes. He did not teach Laxma Goud.
Note: This topic was not named in the CUET 2026 syllabus, but it was part of the NCERT chapter. In 2025 and 2026, NTA also asked questions on topics in NCERT that the CUET syllabus did not name. So our mocks have questions from every part of the NCERT chapter, to give you enough practice. Read the whole chapter, not only the sub-topics named in the syllabus.
NCERT (2026-27): “Rural South Indian Man–Woman This is an etching print on paper made by Laxma Goud (1940...) in 2017. Laxma Goud, a fine draftsman and printmaker, studied mural painting and printmaking at M. S. University, Baroda, and was influenced by his teacher K. G. Subramanyan’s experiments with the narrative mode and figuration of visual traditions, classical, folk and popular cultures. He tries to erase sharp demarcations between major and minor arts, thus, giving it linguistic breath.”
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