Rabindranath Tagore, the poet, also made a mark in modern Indian visu…

Rabindranath Tagore, the poet, also made a mark in modern Indian visual art. Given below are four statements about his visual art:

(A) He turned to visual art quite late in life.

(B) He developed a unique, calligraphic style out of crossed out words.

(D) His small visual world followed the elegant and delicate style of the Bengal School.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 1

The correct answer is Option (1) → (A) and (B) only

(A) He turned to visual art quite late in life. — Correct. He turned to visual art quite late in life.
(B) He developed a unique, calligraphic style out of crossed out words. — Correct. While writing poems he made patterns out of doodles and built a calligraphic style out of crossed out words.
(C) His palette was limited with black, yellow ochre, blues and greens. — Incorrect. His palette was black, yellow ochre, reds and browns, not blues and greens.
(D) His small visual world followed the elegant and delicate style of the Bengal School. — Incorrect. His work was a complete departure from that style, which drew on Mughal and Pahari miniatures and Ajanta frescoes.

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 …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. Some of these were turned into human faces and landscapes, which floated captivatingly in his poems. His palette was limited with black, yellow ochre, reds and browns. However, Rabindranath created a small visual world that was a complete departure from the more elegant and delicate style of the Bengal School, which often drew inspiration from Mughal and Pahari miniatures along with Ajanta frescoes.”