Match the modern Indian artworks in List-I with their type in List-II.
List-I (Artwork) | List-II (Type) |
A. Ganesha | I. Painting |
B. Haldi Grinder | II. Sculpture in oxidised copper |
C. Whirlpool | III. Etching on paper |
D. Devi | IV. Viscosity print |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Ganesha | (II) Sculpture in oxidised copper | P. V. Janakiram made it from sheets of copper as a free-standing form. |
| (B) Haldi Grinder | (I) Painting | Amrita Sher-Gil painted it with bright, saturated pigments. |
| (C) Whirlpool | (IV) Viscosity print | Krishna Reddy made this print by putting different colours on the same metal plate. |
| (D) Devi | (III) Etching on paper | Jyoti Bhatt made this etching on paper. |
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): “Ganesha This is a sculpture in oxidised copper made by P. V. Janakiram in 1970, and is in the collection of NGMA, Delhi. He has used sheets of copper to create pictorial sculpture as free-standing forms, and ornamented their surface with linear elements.…” “Haldi Grinder Amrita Sher-Gil painted Haldi Grinder in 1940. This was the time when she was seeking inspiration from India’s idyllic rural scene. …It is not surprising that she used bright, saturated pigments to paint this work.…” “Whirlpool This was a print made by India’s celebrated printmaker Krishna Reddy in 1963. …This method came to be known as ‘viscosity printing’, in which different colours are applied on the same metal printing plate.…” “Devi This is an etching on paper made by Jyoti Bhatt (1934) in 1970.…” |