K. C. S. Paniker was a pioneer in abstraction. How did he show that abstraction has a long history in India?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → By imbibing artistic motifs from Tamil and Sanskrit scripts, floor decorations and rural crafts
Option (1) By imbibing artistic motifs from Tamil and Sanskrit scripts, floor decorations and rural crafts — Correct. Paniker imbibed motifs from Tamil and Sanskrit scripts, floor decorations and rural crafts to show this long history.
Option (2) By drawing from Indian mythology, religious sources, the style of miniature paintings and village crafts — Incorrect. M. F. Husain drew from these sources, and he remained a figurative artist.
Option (3) By drawing from old mandala and yantra designs and using bindu as a symbol of oneness — Incorrect. S. H. Raza drew some of his abstract paintings from old mandala and yantra designs and used bindu.
Option (4) By creating a visual sense of the cosmic union of male and female energy in his works — Incorrect. G. R. Santosh created this sense of cosmic union, recalling purusha and prakriti.
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NCERT (2026-27): “Abstraction – A New Trend …Whether in painting, printmaking or sculpture, abstraction had a wide appeal for many artists across the 1960s and 1970s. In South India, K. C. S. Paniker, who later went on to establish Cholamandalam, an artist village near Madras, was a pioneer in abstraction. In fact, he showed by imbibing artistic motifs from Tamil and Sanskrit scripts, floor decorations and rural crafts that abstraction has a long history in India.” |