Modern Indian artists chose different forms and styles to express their ideas. Match the modern Indian artists in List-I with the form or style of art they are known for in List-II.
List-I (Artist) | List-II (Form or style) |
A. Nalini Malani | I. Printmaking |
B. Somnath Hore | II. Installation |
C. Prodosh Das Gupta | III. Cubism |
D. Gaganendranath Tagore | IV. Sculpture |
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) Nalini Malani | (II) Installation | She was among the early installation artists, who came from big cities; she came from Mumbai. |
| (B) Somnath Hore | (I) Printmaking | He and Chittoprasad found printmaking a strong medium to express social concerns. |
| (C) Prodosh Das Gupta | (IV) Sculpture | He was a sculptor, and led the young artists of the Calcutta Group in 1943. |
| (D) Gaganendranath Tagore | (III) Cubism | He used the language of Cubism to create a unique style of his own. |
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): “Introduction to Modernism in India …Gaganendranath Tagore used the language of Cubism to create a unique style of his own. His paintings of mysterious halls and rooms were made with vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines, which were quite different from the Cubist style of famous artist Pablo Picasso, who invented the style using geometrical facets.…” “Modern Ideologies and Political Art in India …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.… They wanted their art to talk about these social problems. Chittoprasad and Somnath Hore, the two political artists of India, found printmaking to be a strong medium to express these social concerns.…” “New Media Art: from 1990s …However, the art form that was increasingly seen as contemporary was installation. It provided a way to combine painting, sculpture, photography, video and even television in one space.… However, it was more dependent on technology and it is, therefore, not surprising that most of the early installation artists came from big cities — Nalini Malani from Mumbai and Vivan Sundaram from Delhi.…” |