Several modern Indian artists worked with new styles and materials. M…

Several modern Indian artists worked with new styles and materials. Match the artists in List-I with their work in List-II.

List-I (Artist)	List-II (Work)
A. Ramkinker Baij	I. Worked with metal sheets
B. P. V. Janakiram	II. Open-air cement sculpture
C. G. R. Santosh	III. Wiry sculptures
D. Amarnath Sehgal	IV. Neo-Tantric art

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III

List-I	List-II	Reason
(A) Ramkinker Baij	(II) Made an open air large-scale sculpture in cement	His Santhal Family is an open air sculpture of metal armature and cement mixed with pebbles.
(B) P. V. Janakiram	(I) Worked with metal sheets in a creative way	This sculptor from South India shaped his works out of metal sheets.
(C) G. R. Santosh	(IV) Made Neo-Tantric art that found a ready market in the West	He was one of the Neo-Tantric artists. Such works sold well during the Hippie movement in the West.
(D) Amarnath Sehgal	(III) Created wiry sculptures balancing abstraction and figurative	He struck a balance between abstraction and figurative, as in Cries Unheard.

NCERT (2026-27): “Santhal Family This is an open air large-scale sculpture created by Ramkinker Baij in 1937. It is made out of metal armature and cement mixed with pebbles, and placed in the compound of Kala Bhavana, Shantiniketan, India’s first national art school.”

“…a sculptor from South India, P. V. Janakiram (Ganesh) who worked with metal sheets in a creative way.”

“Abstraction – A New Trend Sculptors like Amarnath Sehgal struck a balance between abstraction and figurative and created wiry sculptures as in Cries Unheard.”

“Abstraction – A New Trend In the 1960s, Biren De and G. R. Santosh in Delhi and K. C. S. Paniker in Madras moved in this direction when they turned to the past and local artistic traditions to create a unique Indian abstract art. This style became successful in the West and later in India and came to be known as Neo-Tantric art because of its use of geometrical designs seen in traditional diagrams for meditation or yantras. Such works made during the height of the Hippie movement in the West found a ready market, and were sought by galleries and collectors alike.”