Observe the image and answer the following question.
How are the two figures rendered in the painting in the image?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → With bold simplifications and thick outlines with sweeping brush strokes
Option (1) With rustic, thin, slender figures and delicate watercolours — Incorrect. These are the stylistic features of Kshitindranath Majumdar in Rasa-Lila. The figures in the painting shown are bold and heavy, not slender.
Option (2) With bold simplifications and thick outlines with sweeping brush strokes — Correct. The painting shown is Woman with Child by Jamini Roy. Its mother and child have bold simplifications and thick outlines.
Option (3) With a lyrical quality of calligraphy in every line — Incorrect. This describes Radhika by Abdul Rehman Chughtai, drawn with a graceful calligraphic line.
Option (4) As lively colourful sketchy figures — Incorrect. This describes the Haripura Posters of Nandalal Bose, not a work of Jamini Roy.
NCERT (2026-27): “Woman with Child This is a gouache painting on paper made by Jamini Roy (1887–1972) in 1940. He was called the father of the folk renaissance in India, who created an alternative vision of modern Indian identity. In the mid –1920s, he travelled to the countryside of Bengal to collect folk paintings (pats) and learn from folk artisans. He wanted to learn from the expressive power of their lines. In this painting, a mother and her child are rendered with bold simplifications and thick outlines with sweeping brush strokes.”
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