Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Fine Arts

Chapter

The Modern Indian Art

Question:

Match the artists in List- I with the type of art associated with them in List- II:

List- I (Artist)

List- II (Art type)

(A) Nalini Malini

(I) Printmaking

(B) Somnath Hore

(II) Installation

(C) Pradosh Das Gupta

(III) Cubism

(D) Gaganendranath Tagore

(IV) Sculpture

Choose the correct answer from the given options:

Options:

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

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

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

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

Correct Answer:

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

Explanation:

The correct answer is option 3- (A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)

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.

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.

In 1943, under the leadership of Prodosh Das Gupta, a sculptor, few young artists formed the Calcutta Group, which included Nirode Mazumdar, Paritosh Sen, Gopal Ghose and Rathin Moitra.

Gaganendranath Tagore used the language of Cubism to create a unique style of his own. His paintings of mysterious halls and rooms were made with vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines, which were quite different from the Cubist style of famous artist Pablo Picasso, who invented the style using geometrical facets