These statements are about Abanindranath Tagore and Jamini Roy. Consider the following statements:
(A) In Journey’s End, Abanindranath rendered the camel’s physical features in fine lines and delicate tones.
(B) In Journey’s End, a collapsed camel is shown in a blue background of night.
(C) Jamini Roy made his colours from organic material, such as tamarind seeds, alluvial mud and indigo.
(D) Jamini Roy made his own canvas with imported silk fabric.
How many of the statements given above are correct?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Two
(A) In Journey’s End, Abanindranath rendered the camel’s physical features in fine lines and delicate tones. — Correct. Its fine lines and sensory texture lead to the meaning of the painting.
(B) In Journey’s End, a collapsed camel is shown in a blue background of night. — Incorrect. The camel lies in a red background of dusk, the end of a day.
(C) Jamini Roy made his colours from organic material, such as tamarind seeds, alluvial mud and indigo. — Correct. Rockdust, mercury powder and common chalk were also used.
(D) Jamini Roy made his own canvas with imported silk fabric. — Incorrect. He used home-spun fabric.
NCERT (2026-27): “Journey’s End …In this painting, a collapsed camel is shown in red background of dusk and in that sense it personifies the end of a journey through the end of a day. Abanindranath tried to capture the portrait and narration with the help of symbolic aesthetics on one hand and literary allusions on the other. The physical features of the camel rendered appropriately in fine lines and delicate tones, and its sensory texture leads us to the meaning of the painting.” “Woman with Child …To achieve and learn the purity of the pat, he first made many monochrome brush drawings, and then, gradually, moved to basic seven colours applied with tempera. He used Indian red, yellow ocher, cadmium green, vermilion, charcoal gray, cobalt blue and white made from organic material, such as rockdust, tamarind seeds, mercury powder, alluvial mud, indigo and common chalk. He used lamp black to outline the drawings and started making his own canvas with home-spun fabric (pats used paper or cloth or baked paper).” |