Observe the image and answer the following question.
The etching in the image shows human figures with trees in the background. Which artistic elements are combined in this print?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Ornate contours, realistic depiction and gentle stylization
Option (1) Bright colour patches, colour contrast and flat shapes — Incorrect. This is Amrita Sher-Gil’s Haldi Grinder, where she placed bright colour patches close to each other and made shapes by colour contrast, not outline.
Option (2) Sketchy forms, earthy palette and figures placed one above another — Incorrect. This is K. G. Subramanyan’s Fairy Tales from Purvapalli, a sketchy painting in ochres, greens and browns, with figures arranged on top of each other.
Option (3) Semi-abstract pattern, saturated pigments and no depth — Incorrect. This also fits Haldi Grinder. Sher-Gil used bright, saturated pigments and preferred a semi-abstract pattern to depth in the landscape.
Option (4) Ornate contours, realistic depiction and gentle stylization — Correct. The print is Laxma Goud’s Rural South Indian Man–Woman; it combines highly ornate contours, realistic depiction of the peasants and a gentle stylization.
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): “Rural South Indian Man–Woman This is an etching print on paper made by Laxma Goud (1940...) in 2017. … In this etching, human figures are shown with trees in the background. It is based on his childhood memories immersed in nature. The work is a combination of highly ornate contours, realistic depiction of the peasants and a gentle stylization that gives a touch of puppets to the figures represented in the print.”
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