Modern Indian artists portrayed working people and the poor. Consider the following statements:
(A) D. P. Roy Choudhury used academic realism to celebrate the labour of working classes.
(B) The experience of the Bengal Famine of 1943 left a lasting impression on Somnath Hore.
(C) The graphic print Children is done with monochromatic etching with aquatint.
(D) The graphic print Children was made by Chittoprasad.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A), (B) and (C) only
(A) D. P. Roy Choudhury used academic realism to celebrate the labour of working classes. — Correct. He did so in The Triumph of Labour. Ramkinkar Baij’s style stood in sharp contrast to his.
(B) The experience of the Bengal Famine of 1943 left a lasting impression on Somnath Hore. — Correct. Hore’s early sketches were of famine victims, and the images in Children came from that memory.
(C) The graphic print Children is done with monochromatic etching with aquatint. — Correct. The print on paper uses monochromatic etching with aquatint.
(D) The graphic print Children was made by Chittoprasad. — Incorrect. Children is by Somnath Hore. Chittoprasad’s sketches of the Bengal Famine came out as pamphlets named Hungry Bengal.
NCERT (2026-27): “Introduction to Modernism in India …Ramkinkar Baij was an artist given to the celebration of nature. … His style was in sharp contrast with works of earlier sculptor like D. P. Roy Choudhury, who had used academic realism to celebrate the labour of working classes, The Triumph of Labour.” “Children This is a graphic print on paper done with monochromatic etching with aquatint made by Somnath Hore (1921–2006) in 1958. The experience of the Bengal Famine of 1943, left a lasting impression on him. His early sketches and drawings were spot and life drawings of hapless victims of the famine, suffering and dying peasants, sick and infirm destitute, and portraits of men, women, children and animals.” “Modern Ideologies and Political Art in India …Chittoprasad’s etchings, linocuts and lithographs showed the deplorable condition of the poor. It is not surprising that he was asked by the Communist Party of India to travel to villages worst affected by the Bengal Famine and make sketches. These were later published as pamphlets under the name, Hungry Bengal, much to the annoyance of the British.” |