Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Fine Arts

Chapter

The Rajasthani Schools of Painting

Question:

Observe the painting and answer the question asked:

What statement regarding narrative techniques in the Yuddha Kanda is incorrect?

Options:

Sahibdin layers several episodes into a single painting.

A single episode is spread over more than one folio in the Yuddha Kanda.

Sahibdin avoids using narrative techniques in the painting.

Oblique aerial perspective is a narrative technique employed by Sahibdin.

Correct Answer:

Sahibdin avoids using narrative techniques in the painting.

Explanation:

Answer: Sahibdin avoids using narrative techniques in the painting.
Sahibdin deploys various narrative techniques in the Yuddha Kanda, so the statement claiming Sahibdin avoids using narrative techniques is incorrect.

Attributed to ingenious artist Sahibdin, Yuddha Kanda, the Book of Battles, is a chapter in the Ramayana set of paintings, popularly referred to as the Jagat Singh Ramayana. Dated 1652, Sahibdin, herein, has crafted a novel pictorial device that of oblique aerial perspective to impart credibility to the ambitious scale that war pictures encompass. Deploying various narrative techniques, he either layers several episodes into a single painting as this one, or spreads a single episode over more than one folio. The painting portrays Indrajit’s devious tactics and use of magic weapons in war.