Cubism and Expressionism rejected academic realism and experimented with abstraction. Given below are two statements:
Assertion (A): A landscape, portrait or still life may also be called abstract.
Reason (R): Such a work may draw our attention to an abstract design created by forms, lines and colour patches.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Assertion (A): A landscape, portrait or still life may also be called abstract. — True.
Even a work that shows a scene, a face or objects can be called abstract.
Reason (R): Such a work may draw our attention to an abstract design created by forms, lines and colour patches. — True.
The viewer then looks at the design of forms, lines and colour patches more than at the thing shown.
Why R explains A? A landscape, portrait or still life is called abstract if it draws attention to such a design. So R gives the condition that makes A true.
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): “Introduction to Modernism in India …Artists from the Tagore family — Gaganendranath and poet–painter Rabindranath, thus, knew about the international trends of Cubism and Expressionism, which had rejected academic realism and experimented with abstraction; They thought that art need not copy the world but create its own world out of forms, lines and colour patches. A landscape, portrait or still life may be called abstract if it draws our attention to an abstract design created by forms, lines and colour patches. Gaganendranath Tagore used the language of Cubism to create a unique style of his own.…” |