K. C. S. Paniker, a pioneer of abstraction in South India, later went on to establish which of the following?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Cholamandalam
Option (1) Group 1890 — Incorrect. Group 1890 was formed in 1963 under the leadership of J. Swaminathan, not Paniker.
Option (2) Atelier 17 — Incorrect. Atelier 17 is the famous studio where Krishna Reddy and Stanley William Hayter developed viscosity printing.
Option (3) Cholamandalam — Correct. Paniker later went on to establish Cholamandalam, an artist village near Madras.
Option (4) The Progressives — Incorrect. The Progressives was a group formed in Bombay in 1946, led by Francis Newton Souza.
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NCERT (2026-27): “Abstraction – A New Trend …Whether in painting, printmaking or sculpture, abstraction had a wide appeal for many artists across the 1960s and 1970s. In South India, K. C. S. Paniker, who later went on to establish Cholamandalam, an artist village near Madras, was a pioneer in abstraction. In fact, he showed by imbibing artistic motifs from Tamil and Sanskrit scripts, floor decorations and rural crafts that abstraction has a long history in India.” |