New styles, schools and ideas shaped Indian art in the colonial period. Match the terms in List-I with their descriptions in List-II.
List-I (Term) | List-II (Description) |
A. Company School of Painting | I. India’s first national art school |
B. Kala Bhavana | II. Traditional and European mixture |
C. Pan-Asianism | III. Squares, circles and colour patches |
D. Bauhaus School | IV. Uniting eastern nations against imperialism |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Company School of Painting | (II) Traditional and European mixture | Local artists adapted their traditional way of painting to the close observation of European art for English patrons. |
| (B) Kala Bhavana | (I) India’s first national art school | Kala Bhavana at Shantiniketan was India’s first national art school, where Nandalal Bose headed painting. |
| (C) Pan-Asianism | (IV) Uniting eastern nations against imperialism | Kakuzo Okakura brought this idea to India, to unite India with other eastern nations. |
| (D) Bauhaus School | (III) Squares, circles and colour patches | Paul Klee, Kandinsky and other Bauhaus artists rejected academic realism and used squares, circles, lines and colour patches. |
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): “Company Painting …This meant that they had to rely more on close observation, a striking feature of the European art, rather than memory and rule books, as seen in traditional art. It is this mixture of traditional and European style of painting that came to be known as the Company School of Painting.…” “Shantiniketan — Early modernism Nandalal Bose, a student of Abanindranath Tagore, was invited by poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore to head the painting department in the newly established Kala Bhavana. Kala Bhavana was India’s first national art school. It was part of the Visva-Bharati University founded by Rabindranath Tagore at Shantiniketan.…” “Pan-Asianism and Modernism …Ananda Coomaraswamy, an important art historian, wrote about Swadeshi in art and joined hands with a Japanese nationalist, Kakuzo Okakura, who was visiting Rabindranath Tagore in Calcutta. He came to India with his ideas about pan-Asianism, by which he wanted to unite India with other eastern nations and fight against western imperialism.…” “Pan-Asianism and Modernism …Hence, the year 1922 may be regarded as a remarkable one, when an important exhibition of works by Paul Klee, Kandinsky and other artists, who were part of the Bauhaus School in Germany, travelled to Calcutta. These European artists had rejected academic realism, which appealed to the Swadeshi artists. They created a more abstract language of art, consisting of squares, circles, lines and colour patches.…” |