Modern Indian art took shape at a time of change in India and abroad. Consider the following statements:
(A) Kala Bhavana was set up amid world political turmoil after World War–I.
(B) In the West, cafes and restaurants became important places for artists, writers, film-makers and poets to meet.
(C) Cries Un-heard by Amarnath Sahgal is a sculpture in oxidised copper.
(D) Modern European art influenced Indian artists through art magazines that were in circulation.
How many of the statements given above are correct?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Three
(A) Kala Bhavana was set up amid world political turmoil after World War–I. — Correct. Kala Bhavana came up in 1919, in the turmoil just after World War–I.
(B) In the West, cafes and restaurants became important places for artists, writers, film-makers and poets to meet. — Correct. They met there to discuss the role of art in modern life.
(C) Cries Un-heard by Amarnath Sahgal is a sculpture in oxidised copper. — Incorrect. Cries Un-heard is a sculpture in bronze.
(D) Modern European art influenced Indian artists through art magazines that were in circulation. — Correct. Besides the Bauhaus exhibition in Calcutta, art magazines carried these trends to India.
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 …India’s first nationalist art school, Kala Bhavana, was set up in 1919 as part of the newly established Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan, conceptualised by poet Rabindranath Tagore. It carried the vision of the Bengal School but also followed its own path in creating art meaningful for Indians. This was the time when the whole world was in a state of intense political turmoil in the wake of World War–I. Apart from the famous Bauhaus exhibition that travelled to Calcutta, as discussed in the previous chapter, modern European art influenced Indian artists through art magazines that were in circulation.…” “Tracing the Modern Indian Art …Early modern French artists like Edouard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet and others saw themselves working outside the main art institutions. Cafes and restaurants became important places for artists, writers, film-makers and poets to meet and discuss about the role of art in modern life.…” “Cries Un-heard This is a sculpture in bronze made by Amarnath Sahgal in 1958. Although the artist only uses abstraction, in which three figures are stick-like and shown in flat rhythmical planes, yet it is easy to understand them as a family — husband, wife and child.…” |