Jamini Roy’s Woman with Child is a gouache painting on paper. From which tradition is the two-dimensional nature of this painting derived?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Pat paintings
Option (1) Ajanta wall paintings — Incorrect. They inspired the formal design and bold colour scheme of Nandalal Bose’s Tiller of the Soil, not Roy’s painting.
Option (2) Mughal manuscripts — Incorrect. Their calligraphic line was taken into the wash paintings of Abdul Rehman Chughtai.
Option (3) Terracotta relief — Incorrect. The terracotta relief of Bankura is echoed in the dull yellow and brick-red colours, not in the flat form.
Option (4) Pat paintings — Correct. Roy collected pats in rural Bengal, and the flat, two-dimensional look of the painting comes from them.
NCERT (2026-27): “Woman with Child This is a gouache painting on paper made by Jamini Roy (1887–1972) in 1940. … In this painting, a mother and her child are rendered with bold simplifications and thick outlines with sweeping brush strokes. The painting exudes a crude vigour hitherto unknown in Indian art. Figures are coloured in dull yellow and brick-red background, emulating the terracotta relief of his home village in Bankura. The two-dimensional nature of the painting is derived from pat paintings and his search for simplicity and pure form is visible.”
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