Colonial rule brought new styles and ideas into Indian art. Match the terms in List-I with their meanings in List-II.
| List-I (Term) | List-II (Meaning) |
|---|---|
| A. Company School of Painting | I. Drawing ideas from the West |
| B. Academic style of oil painting | II. Mixed traditional and European style |
| C. Internationalism | III. True to one’s own legacy |
| D. Indigenous | IV. European medium for Indian subjects |
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-I, D-III
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Company School of Painting | (II) Mixed traditional and European style | Local artists painted for English officers. They mixed their traditional way with the close observation of European art. |
| (B) Academic style of oil painting | (IV) European medium for Indian subjects | This style flourished in the art schools set up by the British. It used oil, a European medium, for Indian subjects. |
| (C) Internationalism | (I) Drawing ideas from the West | Modern Indian art keeps moving between two pulls. Internationalism is the pull to draw ideas from the West. |
| (D) Indigenous | (III) True to one’s own legacy | The indigenous pull is the other one. It means staying true to one’s own legacy and tradition. |
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): “Company Painting …To please their new patrons, they had to adapt their traditional way of painting to document the world around them. This meant that they had to rely more on close observation, a striking feature of the European art, rather than memory and rule books, as seen in traditional art. It is this mixture of traditional and European style of painting that came to be known as the Company School of Painting.…” “Raja Ravi Varma …This style declined with the entry of photography in India in the mid–nineteenth century as camera offered a better way of documentation. What, However, flourished in the art schools set up by the British was the academic style of oil painting that used a European medium to depict Indian subject matter.…” “Different Concepts of Modernism: Western and Indian …Modern art in India can be best understood as a result of the conflict between colonialism and nationalism. Colonialism introduced new institutions of art like art schools, exhibition galleries, art magazines and art societies. Nationalist artists, while accepting these changes, continued to assert more Indian taste in art and even accepted a larger Asian identity for a while. This legacy was going to leave a deep impact on the later history of modern Indian art. Therefore, it will keep moving from internationalism, i.e., draw ideas from the West, and indigenous, i.e., to be true to one’s own legacy and tradition.” |