Observe the image and answer the following question.
How are the shapes of the figures created in this painting?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → By colour contrast, without outline
The painting shown is Haldi Grinder by Amrita Sher-Gil.
Option (1) By diagrams and pictograms from local scripts — Incorrect. This is K. C. S. Paniker’s way. He built his style from the diagrams, scripts and pictograms of his region. Sher-Gil looked to miniature painting and Gaugin instead.
Option (2) By colour contrast, without outline — Correct. Sher-Gil placed bright colour patches close to each other. The figures take their shape from colour contrast, with no outline.
Option (3) By linear silhouettes instead of volume — Incorrect. Linear silhouettes describe P. V. Janakiram’s copper sculpture Ganesha. This painting has no outline to make such silhouettes.
Option (4) By soft, modulated monochrome tones — Incorrect. Modulated monochromes belong to S. H. Raza’s abstract work. Here Sher-Gil used bright, saturated pigments.
NCERT (2026-27): “Haldi Grinder Amrita Sher-Gil painted Haldi Grinder in 1940. … It is not surprising that she used bright, saturated pigments to paint this work. Given her training in modern art in Europe, she was quick to see parallels between miniature traditions of north India and modern art of Paul Gaugin, an artist she admired. This is evident in the way she has placed bright colour patches close to each other and created shapes of figures by colour contrast and not outline. … The women and trees are painted as flat shapes.”
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