Who among the following artists from Baroda used storytelling in their paintings following the Indo-Pakistan war in 1971?
1. Jogen Chowdhury
2. Bikash Bhattacharjee
3. Bhupen Khakar
4. Ganesh Pyne
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
Answer: Bhupen Khakar
K. G. Subramanyan, Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, and Bhupen Khakar in Baroda started using storytelling in their paintings.
Since the 1970s, many artists began to move towards the use of figures and stories that are easy to recognise. Perhaps, this was a way to express their concern towards social problems, following the Indo-Pakistan war in 1971 and the birth of Bangladesh. While K. G. Subramanyan, Gulam Mohammed Sheikh and Bhupen Khakar in Baroda started using storytelling in their paintings, Jogen Chowdhury, Bikash Bhattacharjee and Ganesh Pyne in West Bengal, too, painted the social problems that disturbed them. Like the earlier generations of Indian artists, they, too, explored old miniature paintings and popular art forms like calendar and folk art to be able to paint stories that could be understood by the larger public.