Ideas about modern European art travelled to India in the early twentieth century. Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): The year 1922 may be regarded as a remarkable one for art in India.
Reason (R): In 1922, an exhibition of works by Paul Klee, Kandinsky and other Bauhaus School artists travelled to Calcutta.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Assertion (A): The year 1922 may be regarded as a remarkable one for art in India. — True. The year stands out for an event in Calcutta.
Reason (R): In 1922, an exhibition of works by Paul Klee, Kandinsky and other Bauhaus School artists travelled to Calcutta. — True. These artists of the Bauhaus School in Germany had rejected academic realism.
Why R explains A? The year 1922 is called remarkable because of this exhibition. Through it, Indian artists and the public had a direct encounter with modern art of this kind for the first time. So the exhibition makes the year remarkable.
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): “Pan-Asianism and Modernism … If, on one hand, pan-Asianism was gaining popularity, ideas about modern European art also travelled to India. Hence, the year 1922 may be regarded as a remarkable one, when an important exhibition of works by Paul Klee, Kandinsky and other artists, who were part of the Bauhaus School in Germany, travelled to Calcutta. These European artists had rejected academic realism, which appealed to the Swadeshi artists. They created a more abstract language of art, consisting of squares, circles, lines and colour patches. For the first time, Indian artists and the public had a direct encounter with modern art of this kind.…” |