Assertion: In the 20th century, artists from the Tagore family thought that a landscape, portrait or still life may be called an abstract art.
Reason: A landscape, portrait or still life may be called abstract if it draws our attention to an abstract design created by forms, lines and colour patches.

1- Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.
2- Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct but the Reason is not the correct explanation of the Assertion.
3- The Assertion is incorrect but the Reason is correct.
4- The Assertion is correct but the Reason is incorrect.

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Answer- 1

1- Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.

It was against the colonial bias that nationalist art emerged, and the Bengal School of Art, as nurtured by Abanindranath Tagore and E. B. Havell, was a prime example. India’s first nationalist art school, Kala Bhavana, was set up in 1919 as part of the newly established Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan, conceptualised by poet Rabindranath Tagore. It carried the vision of the Bengal School but also followed its own path in creating art meaningful for Indians. This was the time when the whole world was in a state of intense political turmoil in the wake of World War–I. Apart from the famous Bauhaus exhibition that travelled to Calcutta modern European art influenced Indian artists through art magazines that were in circulation. Artists from the Tagore family — Gaganendranath and poet–painter Rabindranath, thus, knew about the international trends of Cubism and Expressionism, which had rejected academic realism and experimented with abstraction; They thought that art need not copy the world but create its own world out of forms, lines and colour patches. A landscape, portrait or still life may be called abstract if it draws our attention to an abstract design created by forms, lines and colour patches.