Observe the image and answer the following question.
Who is the painter of the artwork in the image?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Raja Ravi Varma
The painting shown is Krishna as envoy by Raja Ravi Varma. It is in the style of academic realism that he mastered by imitating copies of European paintings.
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. They became so popular that many of his paintings were copied as oleographs and were sold in market. They even entered people’s homes as calendar images.”
“Raja Ravi Varma, Krishna as envoy, 1906. NGMA, New Delhi, India” |
