Observe the image and answer the following question.
What quality, hitherto unknown in Indian art, does the painting in the image exude?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A crude vigour
Option (1) A lyrical quality of calligraphy — Incorrect. A lyrical quality of calligraphy in every line marks Abdul Rehman Chughtai’s Radhika.
Option (2) A crude vigour — Correct. The painting shown is Jamini Roy’s Woman with Child, which exudes a crude vigour.
Option (3) A deeper sensuous quality — Incorrect. Chughtai’s calligraphic line gives a deeper sensuous quality to his paintings.
Option (4) Sublime moods of characters — Incorrect. The sublime moods of characters are captured in Kshitindranath Majumdar’s Rasa-Lila.
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.”
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