Attitudes changed at the Baroda Art School in the 1980s. Given below…

Attitudes changed at the Baroda Art School in the 1980s. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R):

Assertion (A): Social and political concerns found a place in the artistic production of this period.
Reason (R): Artists of this period drew their style from other art historical styles.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 2

The correct answer is Option (2) → Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A).

Assertion (A): Social and political concerns found a place in the artistic production of this period. — True. Artists of this period began to take interest in their immediate surroundings, and social and political concerns entered their work.

Reason (R): Artists of this period drew their style from other art historical styles. — True. Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, a teacher of art history, invoked the style of Italian painters like the Lorenzetti brothers.

Why R does not explain A? R tells where these artists took their style from, not why social and political concerns entered their art. The correct reason for A is that many artists became aware of their role as citizens in a democracy.

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 …In the 1980s, an important departure in this attitude can be seen in the Baroda Art School, which came up in the late 1950s. There was a change in the way artists began to take interest in their immediate surroundings. Many artists became aware of their role as citizens in a democracy and social and political concerns found place in the artistic production of this period. They found a way to combine fact with fiction, autobiography with fantasy and drew their style from other art historical styles. Gulam Mohammed Sheikh would paint the busy lanes of the old bazaar in Baroda while invoking a medieval town in Sienna and the style of Italian painters like the Lorenzetti brothers.…”