Modern Indian artists worked in different art centres across the country. Which of the following pairs of an artist and the place where he worked is correctly matched?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Ganesh Pyne — West Bengal
Option (1) Jogen Chowdhury — Baroda — Incorrect. Jogen Chowdhury worked in West Bengal, where he painted the social problems that disturbed him.
Option (2) Bhupen Khakar — West Bengal — Incorrect. Bhupen Khakar was in Baroda, with K. G. Subramanyan and Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, who used storytelling in their paintings.
Option (3) Ganesh Pyne — West Bengal — Correct. Ganesh Pyne, with Jogen Chowdhury and Bikash Bhattacharjee, painted social problems in West Bengal.
Option (4) K. C. S. Paniker — Delhi — Incorrect. Paniker worked in Madras. Biren De and G. R. Santosh were the artists in Delhi.
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 Since the 1970s, many artists began to move towards the use of figures and stories that are easy to recognise. Perhaps, this was a way to express their concern towards social problems, following the Indo-Pakistan war in 1971 and the birth of Bangladesh. While K. G. Subramanyan, Gulam Mohammed Sheikh and Bhupen Khakar in Baroda started using storytelling in their paintings, Jogen Chowdhury, Bikash Bhattacharjee and Ganesh Pyne in West Bengal, too, painted the social problems that disturbed them.” “Abstraction – A New Trend …In the 1960s, Biren De and G. R. Santosh in Delhi and K. C. S. Paniker in Madras moved in this direction when they turned to the past and local artistic traditions to create a unique Indian abstract art.” |