The painters of the Bengal School and its time worked in different mediums. Which of the following pairs of painting and medium is correctly matched?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Rasa-Lila – Watercolour in wash technique
Option (1) City in the Night – Gouache on paper — Incorrect. Gaganendranath Tagore painted City in the Night as a watercolour. Gouache on paper is the medium of Jamini Roy’s Woman with Child.
Option (2) Rasa-Lila – Watercolour in wash technique — Correct. Kshitindranath Majumdar made Rasa-Lila as a watercolour in wash technique on the divine life of Sri Krishna.
Option (3) Woman with Child – Wash and tempera on paper — Incorrect. Jamini Roy’s Woman with Child is a gouache on paper. Wash and tempera on paper is the medium of Chughtai’s Radhika.
Option (4) Tiller of the Soil – Watercolour in wash technique — Incorrect. In this Haripura panel, Nandalal Bose used thick tempera in a bold cursory style.
NCERT (2026-27): “Rasa-Lila This is a watercolour painting in wash technique portraying the divine life of Sri Krishna made by Kshitindranath Majumdar (1891–1975).” “City in the Night This is a watercolour painting made by Gaganendranath Tagore (1869 –1938) in 1922.” “Woman with Child This is a gouache painting on paper made by Jamini Roy (1887–1972) in 1940.” “Tiller of the Soil …He used thick tempera in a bold cursory style and broad brushwork.”
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