K. G. Subramanyan was a founding member of the Baroda Art School. Who among the following was a student of K. G. Subramanyan?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Gulam Mohammed Sheikh
Option (1) Gulam Mohammed Sheikh — Correct. K. G. Subramanyan is named as Sheikh’s teacher.
Option (2) Benode Behari Mukherjee — Incorrect. He was one of Subramanyan’s own teachers at Shantiniketan, not his student.
Option (3) Ramkinker Baij — Incorrect. He too was Subramanyan’s teacher, from whom he learned about the public role of art.
Option (4) Nandalal Bose — Incorrect. He was a student of Abanindranath Tagore and worked at Kala Bhavana, Shantiniketan.
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. … 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. He was interested in mural art or art on large public buildings, which can be seen by everyone.…” |