Modern Indian artists are known for their own styles and methods. Match the artists in List-I with their work in List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. Jamini Roy | I. Mysterious halls and rooms |
| B. Somnath Hore | II. Signed on his paintings |
| C. Krishna Reddy | III. Viscosity printing |
| D. Gaganendranath Tagore | IV. Bone structure showing malnutrition |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Jamini Roy | (II) Signed on his paintings | Roy signed his works. His style is seen as uniquely personal. |
| (B) Somnath Hore | (IV) Bone structure showing malnutrition | In his etching Children, drawn from the famine of 1943, the bones under the skin show malnutrition. |
| (C) Krishna Reddy | (III) Viscosity printing | He developed it with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17: a method of applying different colours on one metal plate. |
| (D) Gaganendranath Tagore | (I) Mysterious halls and rooms | His halls and rooms were made with vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines, in his own form of Cubism. |
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 …However, what differentiated his art from that of village artists was that Roy signed on his paintings. His style is seen as uniquely personal, distinct from both the academic naturalism of art schools and from Raja Ravi Varma’s Indianised naturalism, as well as, from the delicate style practised by some of the Bengal School artists.” “Children This is a graphic print on paper done with monochromatic etching with aquatint made by Somnath Hore (1921–2006) in 1958. … The bone structure just beneath the skin renders the effect of malnutrition on the people.” “Whirlpool This was a print made by India’s celebrated printmaker Krishna Reddy in 1963. … It is the result of a new technique in printmaking that he developed along with a well-known printmaker, Stanley William Hayter, in the famous studio called ‘Atelier 17’. This method came to be known as ‘viscosity printing’, in which different colours are applied on the same metal printing plate.” “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.” |