At Shantiniketan, Benode Behari Mukherjee and Ramkinker Baij developed their own unique style of sketching and painting. What did this style make possible?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Capturing their immediate environment and those who lived there
Option (1) Capturing the delicate style of Mughal and Pahari miniatures — Incorrect. The Bengal School drew inspiration from Mughal and Pahari miniatures. The style of these two artists was built to capture the world around them.
Option (2) Building forms out of vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines — Incorrect. This describes Gaganendranath Tagore, who used the language of Cubism to paint mysterious halls and rooms.
Option (3) Turning doodles and crossed-out words into human faces — Incorrect. This was Rabindranath Tagore, who made patterns out of doodles while writing his poems.
Option (4) Capturing their immediate environment and those who lived there — Correct. Their style could capture flora and fauna around them and also the people who lived there.
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NCERT (2026-27): “Introduction to Modernism in India …Benode Behari Mukherjee and Ramkinker Baij, Bose’s most creative students, gave a lot of thought as how to understand the world. They developed their own unique style of sketching and painting that could capture not only their immediate environment like flora and fauna but also those who lived there. Shantiniketan had a large population of Santhal tribe at its outskirts, and these artists often painted them and made sculptures based on them.…” |