Jamini Roy made his art relevant to the rural community of Bengal. Which of the following was one of his practices?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → He made his own colours from vegetables and minerals.
Option (1) He made his own colours from vegetables and minerals. — Correct. Like village artists, Roy made his own colours from vegetables and minerals.
Option (2) He learned sand casting from local Rajasthani artists. — Incorrect. This was K. G. Subramanyan. He learned sand casting from local Rajasthani artists to make large relief sculptures.
Option (3) He sketched directly on the walls without compositional sketches. — Incorrect. This was Benode Behari Mukherjee, who sketched the mural The Lives of Medieval Saints directly on the walls.
Option (4) He used cement mixed with pebbles, held with metal armature. — Incorrect. This was Ramkinkar Baij. He made his sculpture Santhal Family from cement mixed with pebbles.
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NCERT (2026-27): “If rural community was important for Benode Behari Mukherjee and Ramkinker Baij, Jamini Roy, too, made his art relevant to this context. We had briefly discussed Roy in the last chapter as an artist, who rejected his own training received at the Government School of Art, Calcutta. Being a student of Abanindranath Tagore, he realised the futility of pursuing academic art. … Roy, too, used simple and pure colours. Like village artists, he also made his own colours from vegetables and minerals.” |