Observe the image and answer the following question.
Who painted the work in the image?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Amrita Sher-Gil
Option (1) Abanindranath Tagore — Incorrect. Abanindranath painted a camel in Journey’s End, where it lies collapsed in a red dusk background. The work shown is not that painting.
Option (2) Amrita Sher-Gil — Correct. The work is Camels by Amrita Sher-Gil. She used the kind of style the Bauhaus exhibition showed to depict Indian scenes.
Option (3) Jamini Roy — Incorrect. Jamini Roy adopted the flat and colourful style of folk painting, with themes like women and children.
Option (4) Gaganendranath Tagore — Incorrect. Gaganendranath Tagore made paintings in the Cubist style, with building interiors made of geometric patterns.
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): “Different Concepts of Modernism: Western and Indian …Amrita Sher-Gil, whom we will discuss in the next chapter, is a perfect example of the meeting of both these points of view. She used the kind of style that the Bauhaus exhibition showed to depict Indian scenes.…”
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