Gaganendranath and Rabindranath Tagore knew about the international trends of Cubism and Expressionism. What had these trends rejected?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Academic realism
Option (1) Abstraction — Incorrect. These trends experimented with abstraction; they did not reject it.
Option (2) Still life — Incorrect. Still life is a subject of art. Even a still life may be called abstract when it draws attention to its design.
Option (3) Academic realism — Correct. Cubism and Expressionism rejected academic realism. Art, they held, need not copy the world.
Option (4) Colour patches — Incorrect. Colour patches, with forms and lines, were what such art used to create its own world.
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): “Introduction to Modernism in India …Artists from the Tagore family — Gaganendranath and poet–painter Rabindranath, thus, knew about the international trends of Cubism and Expressionism, which had rejected academic realism and experimented with abstraction; They thought that art need not copy the world but create its own world out of forms, lines and colour patches. A landscape, portrait or still life may be called abstract if it draws our attention to an abstract design created by forms, lines and colour patches.” |