The following statements are about some Indian modern artists and their works.
(A) City for Sale is a painting by G. M. Sheikh.
(B) S. H. Raza used the bindu as a symbol of the cosmic union of male and female energy.
(C) For many years, Mrinalini Mukherjee’s fibre works were dismissed as craft.
(D) K. G. Subramanyan painted the busy lanes of Baroda’s old bazaar, invoking a medieval town in Sienna.
How many of the statements given above are correct?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Two
(A) City for Sale is a painting by G. M. Sheikh. — Correct. The painting is credited to G. M. Sheikh, 1984.
(B) S. H. Raza used the bindu as a symbol of the cosmic union of male and female energy. — Incorrect. Raza used bindu as a symbol of oneness from Indian philosophy. The cosmic union of male and female energy belongs to the work of G. R. Santosh.
(C) For many years, Mrinalini Mukherjee’s fibre works were dismissed as craft. — Correct. Only recently have these works drawn attention for originality and boldness of imagination.
(D) K. G. Subramanyan painted the busy lanes of Baroda’s old bazaar, invoking a medieval town in Sienna. — Incorrect. The Baroda bazaar and Sienna belong to Gulam Mohammed Sheikh. Subramanyan was Sheikh’s teacher and a founding member of the Baroda Art School.
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NCERT (2026-27): “The New Figurative Art and Modern Art from 1980s …Gulam Mohammed Sheikh would paint the busy lanes of the old bazaar in Baroda while invoking a medieval town in Sienna and the style of Italian painters like the Lorenzetti brothers. Being a teacher of art history, he knew how artists painted in earlier times in different parts of the world. K. G. Subramanyan, Sheikh’s teacher and a founding member of the Baroda Art School, had studied in Shantiniketan.” “Abstraction – A New Trend …If Husain used the figurative language of modern art to show Indian themes, Raza made a similar claim with abstraction. Some of his paintings draw from old mandala and yantra designs, and even use bindu as a symbol of oneness from Indian philosophy. … G. R. Santosh created a visual sense of cosmic union of male and female energy, reminding us of purusha and prakriti of the Tantric philosophy.” “Vanshri This artwork was created by Mrinalini Mukherjee in 1994. She uses an unusual material to make this sculpture. She uses hemp-fibre, a medium that she experimented with from the early 1970s. … For many years, her works of this kind were dismissed as craft. Only recently her fibre works have attracted a lot of attention for originality and boldness of imagination.”
G. M. Sheikh, City for Sale, 1984. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK |
