Match the persons linked with ideas about modern Indian art in List-I with their views or work in List-II.
List-I (Person) | List-II (View or work) |
A. Benoy Sarkar | I. Favoured return to native art |
B. Raja Ravi Varma | II. Called Bengal School regressive |
C. E. B. Havell | III. Bauhaus-type style for Indian scenes |
D. Amrita Sher-Gil | IV. Mastered academic realism |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Benoy Sarkar | (II) Saw the Oriental Bengal School of Art as regressive and anti-modern | Benoy Sarkar sided with the anglicists. For him, the Oriental Bengal School of Art was regressive and anti-modern. |
| (B) Raja Ravi Varma | (IV) Mastered academic realism by imitating European paintings | Ravi Varma, a self-taught artist of the Travancore Court, imitated copies of European paintings and mastered academic realism. |
| (C) E. B. Havell | (I) Favoured a return to native art to create a true modern Indian art | Havell, an Englishman, was in favour of a return to native art to create a true modern Indian art. |
| (D) Amrita Sher-Gil | (III) Used the kind of style the Bauhaus exhibition showed to depict Indian scenes | Sher-Gil was a meeting of both points of view. She used the Bauhaus style to depict Indian scenes. |
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): “Raja Ravi Varma …The most successful examples of this type of painting were found away from these art schools. They are best seen in the works produced by self-taught artist, Raja Ravi Varma of the Travancore Court in Kerala. By imitating copies of European paintings popular in Indian palaces, he mastered the style of academic realism and used it to depict scenes from popular epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata.…” “Different Concepts of Modernism: Western and Indian …Take the case of the Bengali intellectual, Benoy Sarkar, who sided with the anglicists and considered modernism that was growing in Europe as authentic in an article, ‘The Futurism of Young Asia’. For him, the Oriental Bengal School of Art was regressive and anti-modern. On the other hand, it was E. B. Havell, an Englishman, who was in favour of return to native art to create a true modern Indian art.… Amrita Sher-Gil, whom we will discuss in the next chapter, is a perfect example of the meeting of both these points of view. She used the kind of style that the Bauhaus exhibition showed to depict Indian scenes.…” |