Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Fine Arts

Chapter

The Modern Indian Art

Question:

Match the pair of artists in List- I with the type of art they are renowned for in List- II:

List- I (Artist)

List- II (Art)

(A) Krishna Reddy and Stanley William Hayter

(I) Printmaking

(B) Nalini Malini and Vivan Sundaram

(II) Installation

(C) Biren De and G.R. Santosh

(III) Neo-Tantric Art

(D) Chittoprasad and Somnath Hore

(IV) Viscosity Painting

Options:

(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

(A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)

(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)

Correct Answer:

(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 4- (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)

Krishna Reddy and Stanley William Hayter developed the style of viscosity printing’.Whirlpool was a print made by India’s celebrated printmaker Krishna Reddy in 1963. It is a captivating composition created out of various shades of blues. Each colour blends into the other to create a powerful web of design. It is the result of a new technique in printmaking that he developed along with a well-known printmaker, Stanley William Hayter, in the famous studio called ‘Atelier 17’. This method came to be known as ‘viscosity printing’, in which different colours are applied on the same metal printing plate.

Nalini Malini and Vivan Sundaram were known for 'Installation'.  The art form that was increasingly seen as contemporary in the 1990s was installation. It provided a way to combine painting, sculpture, photography, video and even television in one space. This medium, which could spread out into a whole hall could fully grab the attention from all sides. On one wall, you could see a painting, while on another, a video with sculptures hanging from the wall with photographs displayed in glass cases. It offered a new immersive experience, which affected almost all our senses. However, it was more dependent on technology and it is, therefore, not surprising that most of the early installation artists came from big cities — Nalini Malani from Mumbai and Vivan Sundaram from Delhi.

In the 1960s, Biren De and G. R. Santosh in Delhi and K. C. S. Paniker in Madras moved in this direction when they turned to the past and local artistic traditions to create a unique Indian abstract art. This style became successful in the West and later in India and came to be known as Neo-Tantric art because of its use of geometrical designs seen in traditional diagrams for meditation or yantras.

Chittoprasad and Somnath Hore found printmaking to be a strong medium to express social concerns in India. Seeing abject poverty around them and the plight of people in villages and cities, many young artists in Calcutta were drawn to socialism, especially Marxism. This modern philosophy, which was taught by Karl Marx in the mid–nineteenth century in the West, asked important questions about class difference in society and appealed to these artists. They wanted their art to talk about these social problems. Chittoprasad and Somnath Hore, the two political artists of India, found printmaking to be a strong medium to express these social concerns.