What was the significance of Kala Bhavana in Indian art history?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → It was India’s first national art school.
Option (1) It was where art education was first Indianised in 1896. — Incorrect. Havell and Abanindranath began to Indianise art education in the Government Art School, Calcutta, not at Kala Bhavana.
Option (2) It was India’s first national art school. — Correct. Kala Bhavana, part of Visva-Bharati University at Shantiniketan, was India’s first national art school.
Option (3) Its students painted the murals for Lutyen’s Delhi. — Incorrect. The murals for Lutyen’s Delhi buildings went to the students of the Bombay School of Art.
Option (4) It was the school where E. B. Havell was principal. — Incorrect. Havell was principal of the Calcutta School of Art. At Kala Bhavana, Nandalal Bose headed the painting department.
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): “Shantiniketan — Early modernism Nandalal Bose, a student of Abanindranath Tagore, was invited by poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore to head the painting department in the newly established Kala Bhavana. Kala Bhavana was India’s first national art school. It was part of the Visva-Bharati University founded by Rabindranath Tagore at Shantiniketan.” |