Rabindranath Tagore turned to visual art quite late in life. Which limited palette did he use?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Black, yellow ochre, reds and browns
Option (1) Black, yellow ochre, reds and browns — Correct. Rabindranath kept a limited palette of black, yellow ochre, reds and browns.
Option (2) Ochres, greens and browns — Incorrect. This earthy palette belongs to K. G. Subramanyan’s Fairy Tales from Purvapalli.
Option (3) Bright to soft, modulated monochromes — Incorrect. This describes the colours of S. H. Raza, who moved towards abstraction.
Option (4) Bright Indian colours — Incorrect. M. F. Husain used bright Indian colours with western expressionist brush strokes, not Rabindranath.
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NCERT (2026-27): “Introduction to Modernism in India …Rabindranath Tagore turned to visual art quite late in life. While writing poems, he would often make patterns out of doodles and developed a unique, calligraphic style out of crossed out words. Some of these were turned into human faces and landscapes, which floated captivatingly in his poems. His palette was limited with black, yellow ochre, reds and browns.” |