Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Fine Arts

Chapter

The Pahari Schools of Painting

Question:

Match List- I with List- II

List- I

List- II

(A) Basohli School

(I) Figures had a prominent chin & wide-open eyes

(B) Guler–Kangra phase

(II) Characterized by a straight nose in line with the forehead

(C) Kangra School

(III) Raja Govardhan Chand was the chief patron

(D) Kullu Style

(IV) Share aesthetics of Chaurpanchashika painting

Options:

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

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

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

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

Correct Answer:

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

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 1: (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

List- I

List- II

(A) Basohli School

(IV) Share aesthetics of Chaurpanchashika painting

(B) Guler–Kangra phase

(III) Raja Govardhan Chand was the chief patron

(C) Kangra School

(II) Characterized by a straight nose in line with the forehead

(D) Kullu Style

(I) Figures had a prominent chin & wide-open eyes

Basohli painting shares aesthetics with the Chaurpanchashika group of paintings of Western India.

The first quarter of the eighteenth century saw a complete transformation in the Basohli style, initiating the Guler–Kangra phase. This phase first appeared in Guler, a high-ranking branch of the Kangra royal family, under the patronage of Raja Govardhan Chand (1744–1773). Guler artist Pandit Seu with his sons Manak and Nainsukh are attributed with changing the course of painting around 1730–40 to a new style, usually, referred to as the pre–Kangra or Guler–Kangra kalam.

The Kangra style is by far the most poetic and lyrical of Indian styles marked with serene beauty and delicacy of execution. Characteristic features of the Kangra style are delicacy of line, brilliance of colour and minuteness of decorative details. Distinctive is the delineation of the female face, with straight nose in line with the forehead, which came in vogue around the 1790s is the most distinctive feature of this style.

The Kullu style is characterized by figures with a prominent chin, wide open eyes, and lavish use of grey and terracotta red colors in the background.