Observe the image and answer the following question.
Krishna Reddy made the print in the image in 1963 with a new printmaking technique developed at Atelier 17. What does the subject matter of this print deal with?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → It deals with water current
Option (1) It deals with famine-struck children with skeletal bodies — Incorrect. This describes Somnath Hore’s etching Children, drawn from the Bengal Famine of 1943. It is a monochromatic print, not the work shown.
Option (2) It deals with a cosmic union of male and female energy — Incorrect. This describes G. R. Santosh’s Neo-Tantric painting, which recalls purusha and prakriti. It is not Krishna Reddy’s print.
Option (3) It deals with an imaginary landscape of birds and feathered trees — Incorrect. This describes K. G. Subramanyan’s Fairy Tales from Purvapalli, a painting in water and oil colours on acrylic sheet.
Option (4) It deals with water current — Correct. The print shown is Krishna Reddy’s Whirlpool. Its subject, water current, suits viscosity printing, which rests on how water and oil behave with each other.
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): “Whirlpool This was a print made by India’s celebrated printmaker Krishna Reddy in 1963. It is a captivating composition created out of various shades of blues. … This method came to be known as ‘viscosity printing’, in which different colours are applied on the same metal printing plate. Each colour is mixed with linseed oil in varied concentration to ensure that colours do not run into each other. The print’s subject matter, dealing with water current, aptly captures the technique based on understanding how water and oil behave with each other.”
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