Modern Indian art moved between western trends and Indian sources. Match the trends and groups of modern Indian art in List-I with their descriptions in List-II.
| List-I (Trend or group) | List-II (Description) |
| A. Internationalism | I. Stressed rough texture and surface |
| B. Indigenous art | II. Artists turned to native arts |
| C. Group 1890 | III. Borrowed ideas from many sources |
| D. Eclecticism | IV. Free use of western trends |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Internationalism | (IV) Free use of western trends | In internationalism an artist freely used the style of western modern trends such as Cubism, Expressionism and Abstraction. |
| (B) Indigenous art | (II) Artists turned to native arts | Indigenous art stood against internationalism. Its artists turned to native arts. |
| (C) Group 1890 | (I) Stressed rough texture and surface | J. Swaminathan formed this group in 1963. Its artists took a fresh look at the material used in painting. |
| (D) Eclecticism | (III) Borrowed ideas from many sources | Ram Kumar, Satish Gujral, A. Ramachandran and Meera Mukherjee are examples of artists who borrowed ideas from many sources. |
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): “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.…” “Abstraction – A New Trend …In that sense, eclecticism, in which an artist borrowed ideas from many sources, became an important feature of many Indian modernists, of which Ram Kumar, Satish Gujral, A. Ramachandran and Meera Mukherjee are some examples.” “Abstraction – A New Trend …In 1963, another group was formed under the leadership of J. Swaminathan, named Group 1890. Swaminathan also wrote a manifesto for the group, in which the artists claimed being free from any ideology. Rather than a set programme, they adopted a fresh look at the material used in painting, and wrote about the importance of rough texture and surface in their works as a new artistic language.…” |