Chittoprasad and Somnath Hore were two political artists of India who…

Chittoprasad and Somnath Hore were two political artists of India who wanted their art to talk about social problems. Given below are two statements:

Assertion (A): They found printmaking to be a strong medium to express their social concerns.

Reason (R): With printmaking, it is easier to produce a large number of artworks and reach out to more people.

In the light of the above statements, 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): They found printmaking to be a strong medium to express their social concerns. — True. Seeing the poverty around them, these artists wanted their art to talk about social problems.

Reason (R): With printmaking, it is easier to produce a large number of artworks and reach out to more people. — True. One print can be made in many copies.

Why R explains A? A print can be made many times over, so the artists’ message reached more people. Because of this, printmaking became a strong medium for their social concerns.

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): “Modern Ideologies and Political Art in India …Seeing abject poverty around them and the plight of people in villages and cities, many young artists in Calcutta were drawn to socialism, especially Marxism. This modern philosophy, which was taught by Karl Marx in the mid–nineteenth century in the West, asked important questions about class difference in society and appealed to these artists. They wanted their art to talk about these social problems. Chittoprasad and Somnath Hore, the two political artists of India, found printmaking to be a strong medium to express these social concerns. With printmaking, it is easier to produce multiple number of artworks and reach out to more number of people.”