Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Fine Arts

Chapter

The Pahari Schools of Painting

Question:

What is the Shangri Ramayana, and where was it painted?

Options:

A set painted in Kangra in the 18th century.

A well-known set painted in the Kullu Valley in the last quarter of the seventeenth century.

A mural painted in Basohli in the 16th century.

A series of paintings from Nurpur in the 19th century.

Correct Answer:

A well-known set painted in the Kullu Valley in the last quarter of the seventeenth century.

Explanation:

The correct answer is option 2- A well-known set painted in the Kullu Valley in the last quarter of the seventeenth century.

There is a broad classification of three styles — Basohli, Guler and Kangra, and scholars may have variant terms for the same. However, these are indicative centres from where the style travels elsewhere. Hence, in Jasrota, as one observes the Guler style, it becomes categorised under the Guler School with Jasrota as one of its centres. Briefly mentioning the aspects of the other centres, one finds portraits of the rulers of Chamba in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century in the Basohli style.