Observe the image and answer the following question.
Observe the print by Jyoti Bhatt in the image and read the passage about it.
Jyoti Bhatt carved out an art language based on folk traditions and popular practices. He brings together many visual elements into a composite narrative. His works hold a tenuous balance between tradition and modernity, where the past as a vibrant repository of forms is translated into dynamics of the contemporary. In this print, pictorial image of Devi is re-cast and re-contextualised with a linear drawing of the frontal face of a woman, folk motifs and patterns.
Who was Jyoti Bhatt’s mentor and inspiration?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → K. G. Subramanyan
Jyoti Bhatt, who made the etching Devi in 1970, studied painting, printmaking and photography. He was inspired by his mentor K. G. Subramanyan.
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): “Devi This is an etching on paper made by Jyoti Bhatt (1934) in 1970. He studied painting, printmaking and photography, and was inspired by his mentor K. G. Subramanyan. He carved out an art language based on folk traditions and popular practices.”
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