Read the following statements on modern Indian art.
(A) A distinct modern attitude enters Indian art with Gaganendranath Tagore, Jamini Roy and Amrita Sher-Gil.
(B) In Fairy Tales from Purvapalli, the style is sketchy and colours are applied as in quick brush strokes.
(C) In internationalism, artists turned to native arts instead of western modern trends.
(D) The title Fairy Tales from Purvapalli refers to the artist’s home in Purvapalli, a locality in Shantiniketan.
How many of the statements given above are correct?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Three
(A) A distinct modern attitude enters Indian art with Gaganendranath Tagore, Jamini Roy and Amrita Sher-Gil — Correct. Along with Rabindranath Tagore, Ramkinker Baij and Benode Behari Mukherjee, they brought a distinct modern attitude.
(B) In Fairy Tales from Purvapalli, the style is sketchy and colours are applied as in quick brush strokes — Correct. K. G. Subramanyan painted it in a sketchy style with quick brush strokes.
(C) In internationalism, artists turned to native arts instead of western modern trends — Incorrect. In internationalism an artist could freely use western modern trends like Cubism. Turning to native arts was the indigenous side.
(D) The title Fairy Tales from Purvapalli refers to the artist’s home in Purvapalli, a locality in Shantiniketan — Correct. The title names his home in Purvapalli, in Shantiniketan.
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): “Tracing the Modern Indian Art …However, it was with artists like Gagendranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil, Ramkinker Baij and Benode Behari Mukherjee that we can say a distinct modern attitude finds its place in Indian art.…” “Abstraction – A New Trend …However, the tension between internationalism (in which an artist could freely use the style of western modern trends like Cubism, Expressionism, Abstraction, etc.) and indigenous (in which artists turned to native arts) grew acute by the late 1970s.…” “Fairy Tales from Purvapalli …The title refers to his home in Purvapalli, a locality in Shantiniketan, from where his imagination seems to be travelling all around the world. His imaginary landscape consists of a strange world, in which birds and animals rub shoulders with humans. There are unusual trees that grow feathers in place of leaves. This style of painting is sketchy and colours are applied as in quick brush strokes.…” |