Match List- I with List- II

(A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)

The correct answer is Option 1- (A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)

In 1943, under the leadership of Prodosh Das Gupta, a sculptor, few young artists formed the Calcutta Group, which included Nirode Mazumdar, Paritosh Sen, Gopal Ghose and Rathin Moitra.

K. C. S. Paniker, in South India, established Cholamandalam, an artist village near Madras. He was a pioneer in abstraction.

In 1963, Group 1890 was formed under the leadership of J. Swaminathan. Since the time of the Bombay Progressive Artist’s Group, artists began to write their own manifestos or writings, in which they declared the main aims of their art and how it differed from others. In 1963, another group was formed under the leadership of J. Swaminathan, named Group 1890. Swaminathan also wrote a manifesto for the group, in which the artists claimed being free from any ideology.

In Bombay, another set of artists formed a group, called The Progressives in 1946. Francis Newton Souza was the outspoken leader of the group, which included M.F. Husain, K. H. Ara, S.A. Bakre, H.A. Gade and S.H. Raza. Souza wanted to question the conventions that had prevailed in art schools.