Modern Indian artists are linked with particular works and ways of working. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → T. V. Santosh and Shibu Natesan – used photorealism to comment on communal violence
Option (1) Nalini Malani and Vivan Sundaram – photographed people living on the margins of society — Incorrect. Nalini Malani and Vivan Sundaram were early installation artists. People on the margins were photographed by Sheba Chachi, Ravi Agarwal and Atul Bhalla.
Option (2) Laxma Goud – used photorealism in Bapu at Rene Block Gallery, New York — Incorrect. Photorealism in Bapu was used by Atul Dodiya. Laxma Goud is a printmaker, known for the etching Rural South Indian Man–Woman.
Option (3) T. V. Santosh and Shibu Natesan – used photorealism to comment on communal violence — Correct. They used photorealism to comment on communal violence and also showed the new look of cities.
Option (4) Somnath Hore – Santhal Family, the first public modernist sculpture in India — Incorrect. Santhal Family is by Ramkinker Baij. Somnath Hore made the etching Children.
Note: This topic was not named in the CUET 2026 syllabus, but it was part of the NCERT chapter. In 2025 and 2026, NTA also asked questions on topics in NCERT that the CUET syllabus did not name. So our mocks have questions from every part of the NCERT chapter, to give you enough practice. Read the whole chapter, not only the sub-topics named in the syllabus.
NCERT (2026-27): “New Media Art: from 1990s …Photography, long regarded as the rival of painting because of its easy copy of world, gave new ideas to the artists. They developed a new technique called ‘photorealism’, which was used by Atul Dodiya in Bapu at Rene Block Gallery, New York. …T. V. Santosh and Shibu Natesan used photorealism to comment on communal violence on one hand and at the same time, gave us a glimpse of the new look that cities had acquired with India’s technological advancements. Photography could also be used to document changes in society as artists saw them. Sheba Chachi, Ravi Agarwal and Atul Bhalla, among others, photographed those, who lived on the margins of our society, whom we do not notice much in our day-to-day life — women ascetics, queer people, and so on.” “Santhal Family This is an open air large-scale sculpture created by Ramkinker Baij in 1937. …The significance of this work is that it is regarded as the first public modernist sculpture in India.” |