Observe the image and answer the following question.
While writing poems, Rabindranath Tagore often made patterns out of doodles, like the one in the image. What were some of these doodles turned into?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Human faces and landscapes
Option (1) Santhal men and women — Incorrect. Benode Behari Mukherjee and Ramkinker Baij often painted the Santhal tribe living at the outskirts of Shantiniketan. Rabindranath’s doodles became faces and landscapes in his poems.
Option (2) Mysterious halls and rooms — Incorrect. These were painted by Gaganendranath Tagore in his own Cubist style. Rabindranath’s doodles became faces and landscapes in his poems.
Option (3) Human faces and landscapes — Correct. Some of Rabindranath’s doodles were turned into human faces and landscapes that floated in his poems.
Option (4) Lives of medieval saints — Incorrect. Benode Behari Mukherjee drew the lives of medieval saints in his mural Medieval Saints at Hindi Bhavana, Shantiniketan. Rabindranath’s doodles became faces and landscapes in his poems.
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): “Introduction to Modernism in India …Rabindranath Tagore turned to visual art quite late in life. While writing poems, he would often make patterns out of doodles and developed a unique, calligraphic style out of crossed out words. Some of these were turned into human faces and landscapes, which floated captivatingly in his poems. His palette was limited with black, yellow ochre, reds and browns.…”
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