Modern Indian artists gave their works very different looks. Which of the following pairs of work and feature is correctly matched?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Children – narrative quality without supporting visual data, by reduction and simplification
Option (1) Whirlpool – figures arranged on top of each other, creating a flat space — Incorrect. Figures placed on top of each other, as in miniatures, belong to Fairy Tales from Purvapalli. Whirlpool is Krishna Reddy’s print in shades of blue.
Option (2) Children – narrative quality without supporting visual data, by reduction and simplification — Correct. Hore’s Children has no background or setting, yet tells a story by a reductionist and simplification method.
Option (3) Fairy Tales from Purvapalli – various shades of blues blending into a powerful web of design — Incorrect. Shades of blue in a web of design describe Krishna Reddy’s print Whirlpool. Fairy Tales from Purvapalli has an earthy palette of ochres, greens and browns.
Option (4) Triumph of Labour – each figure created with bare minimum lines in a rhythmic network — Incorrect. Figures in bare minimum lines, linked by rhythmic lines, belong to Benode Behari Mukherjee’s mural The Lives of Medieval Saints. Triumph of Labour is a bronze of four men moving a rock.
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. … This is a close knit composition with five standing figures, having no background, perspective or surrounding situation as the figures are talking to themselves. … It creates narrative quality in the picture without taking recourse to placing the figures in a situation of supporting visual data, following reductionist and simplification method.” |