Observe the image and answer the following question.
In which medium is the painting in the image made?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Watercolour
The painting is City in the Night by Gaganendranath Tagore.
Option (1) Watercolour — Correct. It is a watercolour painting.
Option (2) Tempera — Incorrect. Nandalal Bose used thick tempera for his Haripura panel Tiller of the Soil.
Option (3) Oil — Incorrect. Raja Ravi Varma was one of the first Indian painters to use oil paint.
Option (4) Gouache — Incorrect. Jamini Roy’s Woman with Child is a gouache painting on paper.
NCERT (2026-27): “City in the Night This is a watercolour painting made by Gaganendranath Tagore (1869 –1938) in 1922. He was one of the earlier Indian painters, who made use of language and syntax of Cubism to render his ideas. The inner experiences of turbulence are externalised through a blend of allegorical and formal, transforming the static geometry of Analytical Cubism into an expressive apparatus.”
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