Art in India changed under colonial rule and with the rise of nationalism. Match the styles and art forms in List-I with their descriptions in List-II.
| List-I (Style or art form) | List-II (Description) |
|---|---|
| A. Company School of Painting | I. Linked to the Swadeshi movement |
| B. Academic style of oil painting | II. Traditional and European mixture |
| C. Oleographs | III. Copies of Ravi Varma’s paintings |
| D. Bengal School of Art | IV. European medium, Indian subjects |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A-II, B-IV, C-III, D-I
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Company School of Painting | (II) A mixture of traditional and European style of painting | Local artists working for English officers relied on close observation, as in European art. This mixture of styles came to be called the Company School. |
| (B) Academic style of oil painting | (IV) A European medium used to depict Indian subject matter | This style flourished in the art schools set up by the British. It used oil, a European medium, for Indian subjects. |
| (C) Oleographs | (III) Copies of Raja Ravi Varma’s paintings sold in the market | Ravi Varma’s paintings became so popular that many were copied as oleographs and sold in the market. |
| (D) Bengal School of Art | (I) Associated with the nationalist movement (Swadeshi) | The Bengal School was linked to the Swadeshi movement and led by Abanindranath Tagore. |
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): “Company Painting …To please their new patrons, they had to adapt their traditional way of painting to document the world around them. This meant that they had to rely more on close observation, a striking feature of the European art, rather than memory and rule books, as seen in traditional art. It is this mixture of traditional and European style of painting that came to be known as the Company School of Painting.…” “Raja Ravi Varma …What, However, flourished in the art schools set up by the British was the academic style of oil painting that used a European medium to depict Indian subject matter. The most successful examples of this type of painting were found away from these art schools. They are best seen in the works produced by self-taught artist, Raja Ravi Varma of the Travancore Court in Kerala. …They became so popular that many of his paintings were copied as oleographs and were sold in market.…” “The Bengal School The term ‘Bengal School of Art’ is not fully accurate. …It was associated with the nationalist movement (Swadeshi) and spearheaded by Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951).…” |