Modern and contemporary Indian artists worked in many different mediums. Match the artists in List-I with the medium of their work in List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. Chittoprasad | I. Installation |
| B. Sheba Chachi | II. Hemp fibre |
| C. Mrinalini Mukherjee | III. Photography |
| D. Nalini Malani | IV. Printmaking |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Chittoprasad | (IV) Printmaking | With Somnath Hore, he found printmaking a strong medium for social concerns. |
| (B) Sheba Chachi | (III) Photography | With Ravi Agarwal and Atul Bhalla, she photographed people living on the margins of society. |
| (C) Mrinalini Mukherjee | (II) Hemp fibre | She knotted and wove hemp fibre into Vanshri. |
| (D) Nalini Malani | (I) Installation | She was one of the early installation artists, from Mumbai. |
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): “Modern Ideologies and Political Art in India …Chittoprasad and Somnath Hore, the two political artists of India, found printmaking to be a strong medium to express these social concerns. With printmaking, it is easier to produce multiple number of artworks and reach out to more number of people.” “New Media Art: from 1990s …However, the art form that was increasingly seen as contemporary was installation. … However, it was more dependent on technology and it is, therefore, not surprising that most of the early installation artists came from big cities — Nalini Malani from Mumbai and Vivan Sundaram from Delhi. … Photography could also be used to document changes in society as artists saw them. Sheba Chachi, Ravi Agarwal and Atul Bhalla, among others, photographed those, who lived on the margins of our society, whom we do not notice much in our day-to-day life — women ascetics, queer people, and so on.” “Vanshri This artwork was created by Mrinalini Mukherjee in 1994. She uses an unusual material to make this sculpture. She uses hemp-fibre, a medium that she experimented with from the early 1970s.” |