These statements are about painters of colonial India. Consider the statements given below:
(A) Abanindranath Tagore painted a series of 45 paintings based on The Arabian Nights.
(B) Jamini Roy rejected academic training to adopt the flat, colourful style of folk painting.
(C) In Raja Ravi Varma’s Ramayana paintings, the event in each painting serves as a springboard for the next one.
(D) Abanindranath Tagore painted Man Bhanjan of Radha and Birth of Sri Chaitanya.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A), (B) and (C) only
(A) Abanindranath Tagore painted a series of 45 paintings based on The Arabian Nights. — Correct. Besides Journey’s End, he painted The Forest, Coming of Night and this Arabian Nights series.
(B) Jamini Roy rejected academic training to adopt the flat, colourful style of folk painting. — Correct. He turned from art-school training to the folk painting seen in villages.
(C) In Raja Ravi Varma’s Ramayana paintings, the event in each painting serves as a springboard for the next one. — Correct. Each painting leads on to the next, so the series covers the whole epic.
(D) Abanindranath Tagore painted Man Bhanjan of Radha and Birth of Sri Chaitanya. — Incorrect. These are works of Kshitindranath Majumdar, one of Abanindranath’s early students.
NCERT (2026-27): “Journey’s End …Abanindranath has also painted The Forest, Coming of Night, Mountain Traveller, Queen of the Forest and a series of 45 paintings based on The Arabian Nights.” “Shantiniketan — Early modernism …Jamini Roy is a unique example of modern Indian artist, who after undergoing academic training in the colonial Art School rejected it only to adopt the flat and colourful style of folk painting seen in villages.” “Rama Vanquishing the Pride of the Ocean …The event depicted in this painting sequentially serves as a springboard for the next one. The story unfolds itself as each painting leaps to the succeeding one, covering in the process not only the major moments in the lives of Rama and Sita but the entire epic.” “Rasa-Lila This is a watercolour painting in wash technique portraying the divine life of Sri Krishna made by Kshitindranath Majumdar (1891–1975). He was one of the early students of Abanindranath Tagore, who carried forward the wash tradition with some deviations. …Man Bhanjan of Radha, Sakhi and Radha, Lakshmi and Birth of Sri Chaitanya are few examples of his extraordinary power of expression inspired by his understanding of religious concepts as a follower of the Bhakti Marga.” |