Observe the image and answer the following question.
From which source is the two-dimensional nature of the painting in the image derived?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → The pat paintings of Bengal
The painting is Woman with Child by Jamini Roy.
Option (1) The wash technique of the Japanese artists — Incorrect. Two Japanese artists taught the wash technique at Shantiniketan as an alternative to western oil painting. It is not the source of Roy’s flat figures.
Option (2) The abstract language of the Bauhaus artists — Incorrect. The Bauhaus artists created an abstract language of squares, circles, lines and colour patches. Roy did not draw his flat figures from this European art.
Option (3) The terracotta relief of Bankura — Incorrect. The terracotta relief of Bankura gives the colours: dull yellow figures on a brick-red background. It does not give the two-dimensional nature.
Option (4) The pat paintings of Bengal — Correct. Roy collected pats in the Bengal countryside, and the two-dimensional nature of this painting is derived from pat paintings.
NCERT (2026-27): “Woman with Child …In this painting, a mother and her child are rendered with bold simplifications and thick outlines with sweeping brush strokes. The painting exudes a crude vigour hitherto unknown in Indian art. Figures are coloured in dull yellow and brick-red background, emulating the terracotta relief of his home village in Bankura. The two-dimensional nature of the painting is derived from pat paintings and his search for simplicity and pure form is visible.”
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