Modern Indian artists took up very different subjects. Match the artists in List-I with the subjects or ideas in List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. K. G. Subramanyan | I. Labour against nature’s elements |
| B. Bhupen Khakhar | II. Local barber or watch repairer |
| C. Gulam Mohammed Sheikh | III. Public role of art |
| D. Debi Prasad Roy Chowdhury | IV. Baroda bazaar lanes, invoking Sienna |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) K. G. Subramanyan | (III) The public role of art, learned from Benode Behari Mukherjee and Ramkinker Baij | He had studied in Shantiniketan and learned about the public role of art from his teachers, Benode Behari Mukherjee and Ramkinker Baij. |
| (B) Bhupen Khakhar | (II) The local barber or watch repairer | He painted such everyday people with earnestness, as in Janata Watch Repairing. |
| (C) Gulam Mohammed Sheikh | (IV) The old bazaar in Baroda and a medieval town in Sienna | As a teacher of art history, he knew how artists painted in earlier times. |
| (D) Debi Prasad Roy Chowdhury | (I) Labour against the elements of nature | This is the subject of his bronze Triumph of Labour, with four men moving a rock. |
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): “The New Figurative Art and Modern Art from 1980s … Gulam Mohammed Sheikh would paint the busy lanes of the old bazaar in Baroda while invoking a medieval town in Sienna and the style of Italian painters like the Lorenzetti brothers. Being a teacher of art history, he knew how artists painted in earlier times in different parts of the world. K. G. Subramanyan, Sheikh’s teacher and a founding member of the Baroda Art School, had studied in Shantiniketan. He had learned about the public role of art from his teachers, Benode Behari Mukherjee and Ramkinker Baij.…” “The New Figurative Art and Modern Art from 1980s … A painter like Bhupen Khakhar painted the local barber or watch repairer with the same earnestness as he painted the experiences of queer men and their struggle with the middle class morality.…” “Triumph of Labour This is an open air large-scale sculpture in bronze made by Debi Prasad Roy Chowdhury (1899–1975). … It is an image of labour against the elements of nature, a well-known romantic subject of the nineteenth century.…” |