Observe the image and answer the following question.
The painting in the image is said to exude a quality hitherto unknown in Indian art. Which quality is it?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A crude vigour
The painting is Jamini Roy’s Woman with Child.
Option (1) A crude vigour — Correct. The mother and child are drawn with bold simplifications, thick outlines and sweeping brush strokes. The painting exudes a crude vigour hitherto unknown in Indian art.
Option (2) A lyrical quality of calligraphy — Incorrect. This belongs to Chughtai’s Radhika, drawn gracefully with a lyrical quality of calligraphy in every line.
Option (3) A fragmented luminosity — Incorrect. This belongs to Gaganendranath Tagore’s City in the Night, where diamond-shaped planes and prismatic colours give fragmented luminosity.
Option (4) A sublime mood of the characters — Incorrect. This belongs to Kshitindranath Majumdar’s Rasa-Lila, where the sublime moods of Krishna, Radha and the sakhis are captured well.
NCERT (2026-27): “Woman with Child This is a gouache painting on paper made by Jamini Roy (1887–1972) in 1940. … In this painting, a mother and her child are rendered with bold simplifications and thick outlines with sweeping brush strokes. The painting exudes a crude vigour hitherto unknown in Indian art.”
|
