Bundi artists had their own standards of feminine beauty. How are women shown in Bundi paintings?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Petite, with round faces, receding foreheads, sharp noses and full cheeks
Option (1) With arched eyebrows, lotus petal shaped eyes, drooping eyelids and thin lips — Incorrect. This is the distinct facial type of Kishangarh paintings, not the Bundi ideal of beauty.
Option (2) With marked shading, especially of the double-lid eye, and calligraphic lines — Incorrect. Marked shading of the double-lid eye and calligraphic execution mark Kota paintings.
Option (3) As dainty figures with heavily modeled faces and a misty, dreamlike quality — Incorrect. This describes the works of Ibrahim, a painter of the Bikaner School.
Option (4) Petite, with round faces, receding foreheads, sharp noses and full cheeks — Correct. Bundi artists showed women petite, with round faces, receding foreheads, sharp noses and full cheeks.
NCERT (2026-27): “Bundi School of Painting …A distinct feature of Bundi and Kota School is a keen interest in the depiction of lush vegetation; picturesque landscape with varied flora, wildlife and birds; hills and thick jungles; and water bodies. It also has a series of fine equestrian portraits. The drawing of elephants is, particularly, unsurpassed in both Bundi and Kota. Bundi artists had their own standards of feminine beauty — women are petite with round faces, receding foreheads, sharp noses, full cheeks, sharply penciled eyebrows and a ‘pinched’ waist.” |