Art in India from Company painting to the Haripura panels. Match the items in List-I with the facts about them in List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. The style of Nandalal Bose’s Tiller of the Soil | I. Migrated from older courts |
| B. The local artists of Company painting | II. Taught wash technique at Shantiniketan |
| C. Colonialism | III. Recalled patua folk art |
| D. The two Japanese artists who came with Okakura | IV. Introduced art schools and galleries |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Style of Tiller of the Soil | (III) Recalled patua folk art | Bose used thick tempera in a bold cursory style with broad brushwork. This recalled the patuas, or scroll painters. |
| (B) Local artists of Company painting | (I) Migrated from older courts | They painted largely on paper for English officers. Some had come from the old courts of Murshidabad, Lucknow or Delhi. |
| (C) Colonialism | (IV) Introduced art schools and galleries | Colonialism brought these new institutions of art to India. |
| (D) Two Japanese artists | (II) Taught wash technique at Shantiniketan | They came with Okakura to Calcutta and went to Shantiniketan. They taught wash painting as an alternative to western oil painting. |
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): “Tiller of the Soil …To capture the essence of village life in his Haripura panels, Bose made pen-and-ink brush studies of local villagers. He used thick tempera in a bold cursory style and broad brushwork. This technique and style was reminiscent of the folk art practice of patuas or scroll painters.…” “Company Painting …Partly for documentation and partly for artistic reasons, many English officers commissioned local artists to paint scenes around them to get a better idea of the natives. The paintings were largely made on paper by local artists, some of whom had migrated from erstwhile courts of Murshidabad, Lucknow or Delhi.…” “Pan-Asianism and Modernism …Ananda Coomaraswamy, an important art historian, wrote about Swadeshi in art and joined hands with a Japanese nationalist, Kakuzo Okakura, who was visiting Rabindranath Tagore in Calcutta. He came to India with his ideas about pan-Asianism, by which he wanted to unite India with other eastern nations and fight against western imperialism. Two Japanese artists accompanied him to Calcutta, who went to Shantiniketan to teach wash technique of painting to Indian students as an alternative to western oil painting.…” “Different Concepts of Modernism: Western and Indian …Modern art in India can be best understood as a result of the conflict between colonialism and nationalism. Colonialism introduced new institutions of art like art schools, exhibition galleries, art magazines and art societies.…” |