Observe the image and answer the following question.
What is the medium of the painting in the image?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Gouache
Option (1) Gouache — Correct. The painting is Jamini Roy’s Woman with Child, a gouache painting on paper made in 1940.
Option (2) Oil — Incorrect. Raja Ravi Varma was one of the first Indian painters to use oil paint, as in Rama Vanquishing the Pride of the Ocean.
Option (3) Woodcut — Incorrect. Nandalal Bose used woodcuts to illustrate primers in Bengali.
Option (4) Watercolour — Incorrect. Watercolour is the medium of City in the Night by Gaganendranath Tagore and Rasa-Lila by Kshitindranath Majumdar.
NCERT (2026-27): “Woman with Child This is a gouache painting on paper made by Jamini Roy (1887–1972) in 1940. He was called the father of the folk renaissance in India, who created an alternative vision of modern Indian identity. … In this painting, a mother and her child are rendered with bold simplifications and thick outlines with sweeping brush strokes.”
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