Modern Indian artworks and their features are paired below. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Fairy Tales from Purvapalli – an earthy palette of ochres, greens and browns
Option (1) Haldi Grinder – unusual trees that grow feathers in place of leaves — Incorrect. The feathered trees are in K. G. Subramanyan’s Fairy Tales from Purvapalli. In Haldi Grinder, Sher-Gil paints women and trees as flat shapes.
Option (2) Fairy Tales from Purvapalli – an earthy palette of ochres, greens and browns — Correct. Subramanyan keeps an earthy palette of ochres, greens and browns in this painting.
Option (3) Cries Un-heard – sheets of copper beaten into concave planes — Incorrect. Copper sheets beaten into concave planes make P. V. Janakiram’s Ganesha. Cries Un-heard is a bronze by Amarnath Sahgal.
Option (4) Vanshri – stick-like figures shown in flat rhythmical planes — Incorrect. The stick-like figures belong to Cries Un-heard. Mrinalini Mukherjee made Vanshri of knotted hemp fibre.
NCERT (2026-27): “Fairy Tales from Purvapalli This is a painting using water and oil colours on acrylic sheet and was created by K. G. Subramanyan in 1986.…His imaginary landscape consists of a strange world, in which birds and animals rub shoulders with humans. There are unusual trees that grow feathers in place of leaves. This style of painting is sketchy and colours are applied as in quick brush strokes. The palette remains earthy — ochres, greens and browns.…” “Cries Un-heard This is a sculpture in bronze made by Amarnath Sahgal in 1958. Although the artist only uses abstraction, in which three figures are stick-like and shown in flat rhythmical planes, yet it is easy to understand them as a family — husband, wife and child.…” |