The Bengal School chapter describes several styles, techniques and groups of artists. Match the items in List-I with their features in List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. Cubist style of Gaganendranath Tagore | I. A soft, misty and impressionistic landscape |
| B. Wash technique | II. Art for a wider public |
| C. Artists trained at Kala Bhavana | III. Rural folk building the nation |
| D. Haripura Posters | IV. Interiors made of geometric patterns |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Cubist style of Gaganendranath Tagore | (IV) Building interiors created out of geometric patterns | In his Cubist paintings, building interiors are made of geometric patterns. |
| (B) Wash technique | (I) A soft, misty and impressionistic landscape | Abanindranath’s wash gives soft, misty, hazy effects, as in Journey’s End. |
| (C) Artists trained at Kala Bhavana | (II) Wanted art to reach a wider public rather than only the elite | They carried the nationalist vision across India and wanted art for a wider public, not the anglicised elite. |
| (D) Haripura Posters | (III) Ordinary rural folks shown contributing their labour to nation building | Nandalal Bose’s posters showed a drummer, a farmer and a woman churning milk as contributing their labour to the nation. |
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): “Shantiniketan — Early modernism …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. …Kala Bhavana, the institution where Bose taught art, inspired many young artists to carry forward this nationalist vision. It became a training ground for many artists, who taught art in different parts of the country. K. Venkatappa in South India being a prominent example. They wanted art to reach out to a wider public rather than only the elite, anglicised class of people.” “Pan-Asianism and Modernism …It is in the paintings by Gaganendranath Tagore, brother of Abanindranath Tagore, that the influence of modern western style of paintings can be clearly seen. He made several paintings using Cubist style, in which building interiors were created out of geometric patterns.” “Journey’s End …He revived certain aspects of Indian and oriental traditions of paintings in terms of themes, style and techniques, and invented the wash painting technique. The wash technique yields a soft, misty and impressionistic landscape. This quality of hazy and atmospheric effects of the wash are utilised to be suggestive or evocative of an end of a life.” |