Gaganendranath Tagore used Cubism to create his own style. What did he use to make his paintings of mysterious halls and rooms?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines
Option (1) Abstract colour patches — Incorrect. Forms, lines and colour patches are the means by which, the modernists thought, art could create its own world; they are not named for these halls.
Option (2) Geometrical facets — Incorrect. Geometrical facets belong to Pablo Picasso, who invented Cubism. Gaganendranath’s lines were quite different from them.
Option (3) Vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines — Correct. Gaganendranath made his paintings of mysterious halls and rooms with vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines.
Option (4) Patterns out of doodles and crossed out words — Incorrect. This was the way of Rabindranath Tagore, who drew patterns while writing poems.
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): “Introduction to Modernism in India …Gaganendranath Tagore used the language of Cubism to create a unique style of his own. His paintings of mysterious halls and rooms were made with vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines, which were quite different from the Cubist style of famous artist Pablo Picasso, who invented the style using geometrical facets. Rabindranath Tagore turned to visual art quite late in life. While writing poems, he would often make patterns out of doodles and developed a unique, calligraphic style out of crossed out words.” |