Modern Indian artists drew on new materials and on older painting traditions. Consider the following statements:
(A) In Santhal Family, Ramkinker Baij preferred cement, the symbol of modernisation, to marble, wood or stone.
(B) The style of Amrita Sher-Gil’s Haldi Grinder reminds us of the Basohli paintings from north India.
(C) In Haldi Grinder, Sher-Gil created depth in the landscape.
(D) The Santhal tribe that Baij and Benode Behari Mukherjee often painted lived at the outskirts of Baroda.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A) and (B) only
(A) In Santhal Family, Ramkinker Baij preferred cement, the symbol of modernisation, to marble, wood or stone. — Correct. Baij avoided the traditional media and chose cement, the symbol of modernisation.
(B) The style of Amrita Sher-Gil’s Haldi Grinder reminds us of the Basohli paintings from north India. — Correct. Her bright colour patches and flat figures recall the Basohli paintings.
(C) In Haldi Grinder, Sher-Gil created depth in the landscape. — Incorrect. Sher-Gil was not interested in creating depth. She preferred a semi-abstract pattern.
(D) The Santhal tribe that Baij and Benode Behari Mukherjee often painted lived at the outskirts of Baroda. — Incorrect. The Santhals lived at the outskirts of Shantiniketan, where these artists worked.
NCERT (2026-27): “Santhal Family This is an open air large-scale sculpture created by Ramkinker Baij in 1937. It is made out of metal armature and cement mixed with pebbles, and placed in the compound of Kala Bhavana, Shantiniketan, India’s first national art school. …The material of which it is made of is important. The artist has avoided traditional medium like marble, wood or stone, and has preferred cement, the symbol of modernisation.” “Haldi Grinder …This is evident in the way she has placed bright colour patches close to each other and created shapes of figures by colour contrast and not outline. Such a style of painting reminds us of, as for instance, the Basohli paintings from north India. The women and trees are painted as flat shapes. Sher-Gil is not interested in creating any depth in the landscape and prefers a semi-abstract pattern as a modern artist.” “Introduction to Modernism in India …Benode Behari Mukherjee and Ramkinker Baij, Bose’s most creative students, gave a lot of thought as how to understand the world. …Shantiniketan had a large population of Santhal tribe at its outskirts, and these artists often painted them and made sculptures based on them.…” |