The line below describes a modern Indian painter of the 1980s.
“He would paint the busy lanes of the old bazaar in Baroda while invoking a medieval town in Sienna and the style of Italian painters like the Lorenzetti brothers. Being a teacher of art history, he knew how artists painted in earlier times in different parts of the world.”
Who is ‘he’ in the above statement?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Gulam Mohammed Sheikh
Option (1) Anupam Sud — Incorrect. She was a printmaker, known for the etching Of Walls; she did not paint Baroda’s bazaar.
Option (2) Gulam Mohammed Sheikh — Correct. He painted the old bazaar in Baroda while invoking Sienna, and he was a teacher of art history.
Option (3) Jogen Chowdhury — Incorrect. He worked in West Bengal and painted the social problems that disturbed him.
Option (4) Ganesh Pyne — Incorrect. He too was a West Bengal painter of social problems, not a Baroda teacher of art history.
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): “The New Figurative Art and Modern Art from 1980s …In the 1980s, an important departure in this attitude can be seen in the Baroda Art School, which came up in the late 1950s. … They found a way to combine fact with fiction, autobiography with fantasy and drew their style from other art historical styles. Gulam Mohammed Sheikh would paint the busy lanes of the old bazaar in Baroda while invoking a medieval town in Sienna and the style of Italian painters like the Lorenzetti brothers. Being a teacher of art history, he knew how artists painted in earlier times in different parts of the world.…” |