Modern Indian artists drew on very different sources. Match the artists in List-I with what their work shows or uses in List-II:
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. Somnath Hore | I. Local barber or watch repairer |
| B. Gulam Mohammed Sheikh | II. Skeletal torso and ribcage |
| C. K. C. S. Paniker | III. Diagrams, scripts and pictograms |
| D. Bhupen Khakhar | IV. Old Baroda bazaar |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Somnath Hore | (II) Skeletal torso and ribcage | In his etching Children, each linear figure has a skeletal torso with a huge malaria spleen. The images come from the famine of 1943. |
| (B) Gulam Mohammed Sheikh | (IV) Old Baroda bazaar | He painted the old bazaar in Baroda in the manner of Italian painters. The Baroda artists combined fact with fiction. |
| (C) K. C. S. Paniker | (III) Diagrams, scripts and pictograms | He built a style both modern and Indian out of the diagrams, scripts and pictograms of his region. |
| (D) Bhupen Khakhar | (I) Local barber or watch repairer | He painted the local barber or watch repairer with the same earnestness as the experiences of queer men. |
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): “Children This is a graphic print on paper done with monochromatic etching with aquatint made by Somnath Hore (1921–2006) in 1958. … The figures are linear, each with a skeletal torso of a huge malaria spleen and ribcage for the thorax.” p.108: “The New Figurative Art and Modern Art from 1980s …In the 1980s, an important departure in this attitude can be seen in the Baroda Art School, which came up in the late 1950s. … They found a way to combine fact with fiction, autobiography with fantasy and drew their style from other art historical styles. Gulam Mohammed Sheikh would paint the busy lanes of the old bazaar in Baroda while invoking a medieval town in Sienna and the style of Italian painters like the Lorenzetti brothers.” p.105: “Abstraction – A New Trend …In the 1960s, Biren De and G. R. Santosh in Delhi and K. C. S. Paniker in Madras moved in this direction when they turned to the past and local artistic traditions to create a unique Indian abstract art. … K. C. S. Paniker, on the other hand, made use of diagrams, scripts and pictograms that he saw in his region and evolved out of them a style, which was both modern and uniquely Indian.” p.109: “The New Figurative Art and Modern Art from 1980s …A painter like Bhupen Khakhar painted the local barber or watch repairer with the same earnestness as he painted the experiences of queer men and their struggle with the middle class morality.” |