Krishna Reddy made the print Whirlpool with a printmaking technique called viscosity printing. Given below are two statements:
Assertion (A): In viscosity printing, different colours applied on the same metal printing plate do not run into each other.
Reason (R): Each colour is mixed with linseed oil in varied concentration.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Assertion (A): In viscosity printing, different colours applied on the same metal printing plate do not run into each other. — True. Reddy developed this method, in which several colours go on one plate and stay apart.
Reason (R): Each colour is mixed with linseed oil in varied concentration. — True. The amount of linseed oil is different from colour to colour.
Why R explains A? The varied oil content is the cause. Because each colour holds a different concentration of linseed oil, the colours do not run into each other on the same plate.
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): “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. Each colour is mixed with linseed oil in varied concentration to ensure that colours do not run into each other.” |