From the 1990s, some artists photographed those on society’s margins. Which of the following artists was NOT one of them?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Atul Dodiya
Option (1) Atul Bhalla — One of these artists. He photographed people on the margins, such as women ascetics and queer people.
Option (2) Ravi Agarwal — One of these artists. He is named with Sheba Chachi and Atul Bhalla among these photographers.
Option (3) Sheba Chachi — One of these artists. She too photographed people whom we do not notice much in daily life.
Option (4) Atul Dodiya — Not one of these artists. Dodiya used photography in another way. He painted in photorealism, as in Bapu.
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): “New Media Art: from 1990s … Photography, long regarded as the rival of painting because of its easy copy of world, gave new ideas to the artists. They developed a new technique called ‘photorealism’, which was used by Atul Dodiya in Bapu at Rene Block Gallery, New York. … Photography could also be used to document changes in society as artists saw them. Sheba Chachi, Ravi Agarwal and Atul Bhalla, among others, photographed those, who lived on the margins of our society, whom we do not notice much in our day-to-day life — women ascetics, queer people, and so on.” |