Observe the image and answer the following question.
Who painted the picture in the image?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Bhupen Khakhar
Option (1) Bhupen Khakhar — Correct. The painting is Janata Watch Repairing (1972) by Bhupen Khakhar. It shows a watch repairer at work in a small shop.
Option (2) Gulam Mohammed Sheikh — Incorrect. He was a Baroda painter who used storytelling in his paintings, like Khakhar. The painting shown is not his.
Option (3) K. G. Subramanyan — Incorrect. He also used storytelling in Baroda. The painting shown is not his.
Option (4) Jogen Chowdhury — Incorrect. He painted social problems in West Bengal, not in Baroda. The painting shown is not his.
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):
“Bhupen Khakhar, Janata Watch Repairing, 1972. Private Collection, India” “The New Figurative Art and Modern Art from 1980s Since the 1970s, many artists began to move towards the use of figures and stories that are easy to recognise. Perhaps, this was a way to express their concern towards social problems, following the Indo-Pakistan war in 1971 and the birth of Bangladesh. While K. G. Subramanyan, Gulam Mohammed Sheikh and Bhupen Khakar in Baroda started using storytelling in their paintings, Jogen Chowdhury, Bikash Bhattacharjee and Ganesh Pyne in West Bengal, too, painted the social problems that disturbed them.” |
