Who among the following were associated with the Baroda School?
A. Benode Behari Mukherjee
B. K. G. Subramanyan
C. Gulam Mohammed Sheikh
D. Bhupen Khakar
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → B, C and D only
The Baroda Art School came up in the late 1950s. From the 1970s its painters turned to storytelling in their works.
A. Benode Behari Mukherjee Incorrect. He belongs to Shantiniketan, where he was a student of Nandalal Bose and later a teacher of K. G. Subramanyan.
B. K. G. Subramanyan Correct. He was a founding member of the Baroda Art School.
C. Gulam Mohammed Sheikh Correct. A Baroda painter and teacher of art history, he used storytelling in his paintings.
D. Bhupen Khakar Correct. He is named with Subramanyan and Sheikh among the Baroda painters who used storytelling.
NCERT (2026-27): “The New Figurative Art and Modern Art from 1980s …While K. G. Subramanyan, Gulam Mohammed Sheikh and Bhupen Khakar in Baroda started using storytelling in their paintings,…” “The New Figurative Art and Modern Art from 1980s …K. G. Subramanyan, Sheikh’s teacher and a founding member of the Baroda Art School, had studied in Shantiniketan. He had learned about the public role of art from his teachers, Benode Behari Mukherjee and Ramkinker Baij.…” |