Observe the image and answer the following question.
Look at the modern Indian painting in the image. Which art tradition do the male and female figures at its top remind us of?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Kalighat painting
Option (1) Calendar art — Incorrect. Calendar art is not the art form the book names for the figures at the top of this painting; they recall the urban folk art of Kalighat.
Option (2) Kalighat painting — Correct. This is K. G. Subramanyan’s Fairy Tales from Purvapalli (1986). Its male and female figures on top recall the urban folk art of Kalighat, popular in Colonial Calcutta.
Option (3) Bengal School painting — Incorrect. The Bengal School had an elegant and delicate style that drew on miniatures and Ajanta frescoes; these figures are linked to folk art instead.
Option (4) Ajanta frescoes — Incorrect. The Ajanta frescoes are ancient wall paintings that inspired the Bengal School, not the figures at the top here.
NCERT (2026-27): “Fairy Tales from Purvapalli This is a painting using water and oil colours on acrylic sheet and was created by K. G. Subramanyan in 1986. …The male and female figures on top reminds us of urban folk art like the Kalighat painting that was popular in Colonial Calcutta in the late nineteenth century. Again, as in traditional miniature paintings, figures are arranged on the top of other rather than behind each other, creating a flat space, a sign of modern art.”
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