The statements below are about Bengal School period artists and works.
(A) Nandalal Bose turned to the language of art through the folk art forms he saw around Bankura.
(B) In City in the Night, Gaganendranath Tagore transformed the static geometry of Analytical Cubism into an expressive apparatus.
(C) Gaganendranath Tagore softened Cubism’s formal geometry with a seductive profile, shadow or outline of human form.
(D) In Rama Vanquishing the Pride of the Ocean, Rama prays to Varuna for passage across the ocean.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (B), (C) and (D) only
(A) Nandalal Bose turned to the language of art through the folk art forms he saw around Bankura. — Incorrect. Nandalal looked at the folk art forms around Shantiniketan, where he taught at Kala Bhavana. Bankura is Jamini Roy’s home village.
(B) In City in the Night, Gaganendranath Tagore transformed the static geometry of Analytical Cubism into an expressive apparatus. — Correct. He turned the static geometry of Analytical Cubism into an expressive apparatus for inner turbulence.
(C) Gaganendranath Tagore softened Cubism’s formal geometry with a seductive profile, shadow or outline of human form. — Correct. He softened the formal geometry with a profile, shadow or outline of human form.
(D) In Rama Vanquishing the Pride of the Ocean, Rama prays to Varuna for passage across the ocean. — Correct. Rama prays to Varuna to let his army cross to Lanka, but Varuna does not respond.
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): “Shantiniketan — Early modernism …At Kala Bhavana, Nandalal founded the intellectual and artistic milieu to create an Indian style in art. By paying attention to the folk art forms that he saw around in Shantiniketan, he began to focus on the language of art.” “City in the Night …The inner experiences of turbulence are externalised through a blend of allegorical and formal, transforming the static geometry of Analytical Cubism into an expressive apparatus. He softened Cubism’s formal geometry with a seductive profile, shadow or outline of human form.” “Rama Vanquishing the Pride of the Ocean …This scene is taken from Valmiki Ramayana, where Rama needs to build a bridge in southern India to the island of Lanka for his army to cross the ocean. He prays to the God of Ocean, Varuna, to permit him to cross the ocean but Varuna does not respond.” |