The Bundi School of painting developed its own way of portraying women. Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Bundi artists had their own standards of feminine beauty, showing women as petite, with round faces, receding foreheads and sharp noses.
Reason (R): Bundi paintings during the eighteenth century appear to have imbibed Deccani aesthetics, such as a love for bright and vivid colours.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A).
Assertion (A): Bundi artists had their own standards of feminine beauty, showing women as petite, with round faces, receding foreheads and sharp noses — True. Bundi women are petite, with round faces, receding foreheads, sharp noses, full cheeks, sharply penciled eyebrows and a ‘pinched’ waist.
Reason (R): Bundi paintings during the eighteenth century appear to have imbibed Deccani aesthetics, such as a love for bright and vivid colours — True. In the eighteenth century Bundi painting took in Deccani aesthetics, such as bright and vivid colours.
Why R does not explain A? R is about colour taken from the Deccan. It says nothing about the shape of the face or the figure. The correct reason for A: the face type is the Bundi artists’ own standard of feminine beauty, not something borrowed from another school.
NCERT (2026-27): “Bundi School of Painting Painting activity entered its most accomplished phase albeit for a short time during the long reign of Budh Singh’s son, Umed Singh (1749–1771), where it acquired refinement in minuteness of details. Bundi paintings during the eighteenth century appear to have imbibed Deccani aesthetics, such as love for bright and vivid colours.…” “Bundi School of Painting …The drawing of elephants is, particularly, unsurpassed in both Bundi and Kota. Bundi artists had their own standards of feminine beauty — women are petite with round faces, receding foreheads, sharp noses, full cheeks, sharply penciled eyebrows and a ‘pinched’ waist.” |