In the New Media Art of the 1990s, T. V. Santosh and Shibu Natesan commented on communal violence and also showed the new look of Indian cities. Which technique did they use for this?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Photorealism
Option (1) Photorealism — Correct. T. V. Santosh and Shibu Natesan used photorealism to comment on communal violence and on the new look of cities. In this technique, artists paint in oil or acrylic in the manner of a photograph.
Option (2) Installation — Incorrect. Installation combined painting, sculpture, photography and video in one space. Its early artists were Nalini Malani and Vivan Sundaram, not these two painters.
Option (3) Storytelling — Incorrect. Storytelling in paintings was taken up from the 1970s by K. G. Subramanyan, Gulam Mohammed Sheikh and Bhupen Khakhar in Baroda.
Option (4) Wash technique — Incorrect. The wash technique belongs to the Bengal School, where Abdul Rehman Chughtai used it in works such as Radhika. It is not a New Media technique.
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NCERT (2026-27): “New Media Art: from 1990s …Photography, long regarded as the rival of painting because of its easy copy of world, gave new ideas to the artists. They developed a new technique called ‘photorealism’, which was used by Atul Dodiya in Bapu at Rene Block Gallery, New York. Many younger artists used oil or acrylic to paint in the manner of a photograph or television screen. T. V. Santosh and Shibu Natesan used photorealism to comment on communal violence on one hand and at the same time, gave us a glimpse of the new look that cities had acquired with India’s technological advancements.” |