Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Fine Arts

Chapter

The Modern Indian Art

Question:

Which artists from West Bengal painted social problems that disturbed them after the Indo-Pakistan war in 1971?

Options:

K. G. Subramanyan

Bikash Bhattacharjee

Bhupen Khakar

Gulam Mohammed Sheikh

Correct Answer:

Bikash Bhattacharjee

Explanation:

Answer- Bikash Bhattacharjee
Jogen Chowdhury, Bikash Bhattacharjee, and Ganesh Pyne in West Bengal painted the social problems that disturbed them.

Since the 1970s, many artists began to move towards the use of figures and stories that are easy to recognise. Perhaps, this was a way to express their concern towards social problems, following the Indo-Pakistan war in 1971 and the birth of Bangladesh. While K. G. Subramanyan, Gulam Mohammed Sheikh and Bhupen Khakar in Baroda started using storytelling in their paintings, Jogen Chowdhury, Bikash Bhattacharjee and Ganesh Pyne in West Bengal, too, painted the social problems that disturbed them. Like the earlier generations of Indian artists, they, too, explored old miniature paintings and popular art forms like calendar and folk art to be able to paint stories that could be understood by the larger public.