Modern Indian artists received their art training in different cities, in India and abroad. Match the artists in List-I with the city where they trained or studied in List-II:
List-I (Artist) | List-II (City) |
A. Amrita Sher-Gil | I. Baroda |
B. Jamini Roy | II. London |
C. Laxma Goud | III. Paris |
D. Anupam Sud | IV. Calcutta |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Amrita Sher-Gil | (III) Paris | Unlike others, she trained in Paris and saw European modern art trends at first hand. |
| (B) Jamini Roy | (IV) Calcutta | He trained at the Government School of Art, Calcutta, and later rejected that training. |
| (C) Laxma Goud | (I) Baroda | He studied mural painting and printmaking at M. S. University, Baroda. |
| (D) Anupam Sud | (II) London | She studied printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London. |
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 …If rural community was important for Benode Behari Mukherjee and Ramkinker Baij, Jamini Roy, too, made his art relevant to this context. We had briefly discussed Roy in the last chapter as an artist, who rejected his own training received at the Government School of Art, Calcutta.… Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941), half Hungarian and half Indian, emerges as a unique female artist, who contributed immensely to modern Indian art through the 1930s. Unlike others, she was trained in Paris and had a first-hand experience in European modern art trends, such as Impressionism and post–Impressionism.…” “Of Walls This is an etching made from zinc plate and printed on paper made by Anupam Sud in 1982. She had studied printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London, in the early 1970s. When she returned to India, she was drawn to its everyday reality.…” “Rural South Indian Man–Woman …Laxma Goud, a fine draftsman and printmaker, studied mural painting and printmaking at M. S. University, Baroda, and was influenced by his teacher K. G. Subramanyan’s experiments with the narrative mode and figuration of visual traditions, classical, folk and popular cultures.…” |