Modern Indian art was shaped by artists as well as by writers on art. Match the persons in List-I with the role given in List-II.
| List-I | List-II |
|---|---|
| A. Piloo Pochkhanawala | I. Art critic |
| B. Krishna Reddy | II. Printmaker valuing abstraction |
| C. Ananda Coomaraswamy | III. Art historian holding swadeshi ideas |
| D. Geeta Kapur | IV. Sculptor valuing abstraction |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Piloo Pochkhanawala | (IV) Sculptor for whom abstraction was important | Pochkhanawala is named among the sculptors for whom abstraction was important; for them the use of material mattered as much as the new shapes. |
| (B) Krishna Reddy | (II) Printmaker for whom abstraction was important | Krishna Reddy is named in the same line, but as a printmaker, not a sculptor. |
| (C) Ananda Coomaraswamy | (III) Art historian who held ideas like swadeshi in art | This art historian held ideas like swadeshi in art around the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. |
| (D) Geeta Kapur | (I) Art critic who wrote about the exhibition ‘Place for People’ | This eminent art critic wrote about the 1981 exhibition, explaining what its six artists wanted to express. |
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): “Abstraction – A New Trend …Abstraction was important for many sculptors like Piloo Pochkhanawala and printmakers like Krishna Reddy. For them, the use of material was as important as the new shapes they were creating.” “Tracing the Modern Indian Art …Nationalism was not only a political movement that arose following the Indian Revolt of 1857 but it gave rise to cultural nationalism. Ideas like swadeshi in art were held by art historians like Ananda Coomaraswamy around the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.” “The New Figurative Art and Modern Art from 1980s …Such a public view of art can also be seen in a popular exhibition called ‘Place for People’ in 1981. It was shown in Delhi and Bombay and had six artists— Bhupen Khakhar, Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, Vivan Sundaram, Nalini Malani, Sudhir Patwardan and Jogen Chowdhury. The first two were from Baroda and an eminent art critic, Geeta Kapur, wrote about it.” |