The painters of the Bengal School and its time made some of their best-known works over three decades. Arrange the following in the order in which they took place.
(A) Jamini Roy painted Woman with Child in gouache on paper.
(B) Abanindranath Tagore painted Journey’s End in watercolour.
(C) Nandalal Bose made his panels for the Haripura Congress.
(D) Jamini Roy travelled to the countryside of Bengal to collect folk paintings (pats).
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (B), (D), (C), (A)
First: (B) Abanindranath Tagore painted Journey’s End in 1913.
Second: (D) Jamini Roy travelled to the Bengal countryside in the mid-1920s to collect pats and learn from folk artisans.
Third: (C) Nandalal Bose made the Haripura panels for the Haripura Congress in 1938.
Fourth: (A) Jamini Roy painted Woman with Child in 1940, after his years of learning from the pats.
NCERT (2026-27): “Journey’s End Made by Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951) in 1913, this painting is in watercolour. Abanindranath Tagore was seen as a father figure of nationalist and modernism of art in India.…” “Tiller of the Soil This is one of the panels made by Nandalal Bose in 1938 for the Haripura Congress. In this panel, a farmer is shown ploughing a field — the daily activity of a common man and in a village.…” “Woman with Child This is a gouache painting on paper made by Jamini Roy (1887–1972) in 1940. He was called the father of the folk renaissance in India, who created an alternative vision of modern Indian identity. In the mid-1920s, he travelled to the countryside of Bengal to collect folk paintings (pats) and learn from folk artisans.…” |