Observe the image and answer the following question.
Which technique did the artist use in creating this artwork?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Fresco buono
The artwork is The Lives of Medieval Saints, a mural by Benode Behari Mukherjee in Hindi Bhavana, Shantiniketan.
Option (1) Tempera — Incorrect. Tempera is a different painting medium. This mural was not painted in it.
Option (2) Fresco buono — Correct. Mukherjee painted the mural in fresco buono across the upper half of three walls of a room.
Option (3) Etching with aquatint — Incorrect. This is a print technique on paper. Somnath Hore used it for his graphic print Children.
Option (4) Oil on canvas — Incorrect. Oil on canvas is used for paintings on a canvas, not on the walls of a building like this mural.
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): “The Lives of Medieval Saints The Lives of Medieval Saints, a mural in Hindi Bhavana, Shantiniketan, was created by Benode Behari Mukherjee around the eve of India’s Independence from Colonial rule, during 1946–1947. The mural employs the technique of fresco buono and covers almost 23 metre of the entire upper half of the three walls of the room.”
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