Who among the following artists is NOT associated with painting social problems in West Bengal in the period after 1971?

Gulam Mohammed Sheikh

Answer: Gulam Mohammed Sheikh

Gulam Mohammed Sheikh with painting social problems in West Bengal. He, along with K. G. Subramanyan and Bhupen Khakar, is mentioned as using storytelling in their paintings in Baroda.

Since the 1970s, many artists began to move towards the use of figures and stories that are easy to recognise. Perhaps, this was a way to express their concern towards social problems, following the Indo-Pakistan war in 1971 and the birth of Bangladesh. While K. G. Subramanyan, Gulam Mohammed Sheikh and Bhupen Khakar in Baroda started using storytelling in their paintings, Jogen Chowdhury, Bikash Bhattacharjee and Ganesh Pyne in West Bengal, too, painted the social problems that disturbed them. Like the earlier generations of Indian artists, they, too, explored old miniature paintings and popular art forms like calendar and folk art to be able to paint stories that could be understood by the larger public.