Nandalal Bose painted the ‘Haripura Posters’ for a Congress session. How were the figures in these posters painted?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Lively colourful sketchy figures
Option (1) Soft, misty wash paintings — Incorrect. The wash technique, with its soft, misty effect, was invented by Abanindranath Tagore. It is not the style of these posters.
Option (2) Geometric forms in the Cubist style — Incorrect. Geometric forms in the Cubist style belong to Gaganendranath Tagore.
Option (3) Lively colourful sketchy figures — Correct. The figures were lively colourful sketchy figures, shown as contributing their labour to nation building.
Option (4) Realistic studies in oil — Incorrect. Oil paint is linked with Raja Ravi Varma, and realistic studies were taught at the Bombay School of Art.
NCERT (2026-27): “Shantiniketan — Early modernism Nandalal Bose, a student of Abanindranath Tagore, was invited by poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore to head the painting department in the newly established Kala Bhavana.…For this reason, Mahatma Gandhi invited him to paint panels that were put on display at the Congress session at Haripura in 1937. Famously called the ‘Haripura Posters’, they depicted ordinary rural folks busy in various activities — a musician drumming, a farmer tilling, a woman churning milk, and so on. They were painted as lively colourful sketchy figures and shown as contributing their labour to nation building.…” |