Observe the image and answer the following question.
Who made the work in the image?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Rabindranath Tagore
Option (1) Abanindranath Tagore — Incorrect. He nurtured the Bengal School of Art with E. B. Havell. That school’s style was elegant and delicate, drawing on miniatures and Ajanta.
Option (2) Rabindranath Tagore — Correct. He turned to art late in life. While writing poems, he made patterns out of doodles and crossed out words.
Option (3) Gaganendranath Tagore — Incorrect. He used the language of Cubism, painting mysterious halls and rooms with straight lines.
Option (4) Nandalal Bose — Incorrect. He joined Kala Bhavana in 1921–1922 as a teacher and let his students explore new ways of art.
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): “Introduction to Modernism in India …Rabindranath Tagore turned to visual art quite late in life. While writing poems, he would often make patterns out of doodles and developed a unique, calligraphic style out of crossed out words. Some of these were turned into human faces and landscapes, which floated captivatingly in his poems. His palette was limited with black, yellow ochre, reds and browns.…”
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