The Bengal School chapter discusses Abanindranath Tagore, Jamini Roy and Amrita Sher-Gil. Consider the following statements:
(A) Amrita Sher-Gil used the kind of style that the Bauhaus exhibition showed to depict Indian scenes.
(B) Abanindranath Tagore also painted The Forest, Coming of Night and Mountain Traveller.
(C) Jamini Roy rejected his Art School training for the flat, colourful style of folk painting.
(D) Jamini Roy based his folk-style paintings mainly on Puranic themes from the epics.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (A), (B) and (C) only
(A) Amrita Sher-Gil used the kind of style that the Bauhaus exhibition showed to depict Indian scenes. — Correct. She is shown as the meeting point of the western and Indian views of modern art.
(B) Abanindranath Tagore also painted The Forest, Coming of Night and Mountain Traveller. — Correct. These are among his other works, besides Journey’s End and Queen of the Forest.
(C) Jamini Roy rejected his Art School training for the flat, colourful style of folk painting. — Correct. He took up the village folk style after his Art School training.
(D) Jamini Roy based his folk-style paintings mainly on Puranic themes from the epics. — Incorrect. His themes were women and children and rural life.
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): “Different Concepts of Modernism: Western and Indian …Amrita Sher-Gil, whom we will discuss in the next chapter, is a perfect example of the meeting of both these points of view. She used the kind of style that the Bauhaus exhibition showed to depict Indian scenes.” “Journey’s End …The physical features of the camel rendered appropriately in fine lines and delicate tones, and its sensory texture leads us to the meaning of the painting. Abanindranath has also painted The Forest, Coming of Night, Mountain Traveller, Queen of the Forest and a series of 45 paintings based on The Arabian Nights.” “Shantiniketan — Early modernism …Jamini Roy is a unique example of modern Indian artist, who after undergoing academic training in the colonial Art School rejected it only to adopt the flat and colourful style of folk painting seen in villages. He wanted his paintings to be simple and easy to duplicate to reach a wider public and based on themes like women and children, specifically, and rural life, generally.” |