The Changing World of Visual Arts (Chapter-10)

Q.5   Why did some artists produce cheap popular prints ? What influence would such prints have had on the minds of  people who looked at them ?

Q.4   Why do you think some artists wanted to develop a national style of art ?

Q.3   In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors ?

Q.2   Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varma’s paintings as national ?

Q.1   Why did the scroll painters and potters come to Kalighat ? Why did they begin to paint new themes ?

Choose The Correct Answer

Q.1   Company paintings were first produced in the

          (A) Madras Presidency

          (B) Bombay Presidency

          (C) Calcutta Presidency

          (D) None of these

Q.2   One of the most popular traditions of art was

          (A) Portrait painting

          (B) Flora and fauna painting

          (C) Both (A) and (B)

          (D) None of these

Q.3   In Kalighat, Patvas and Kumhars along with the middle class developed new school of art for making fun of

          (A) Indians

          (B) Europeans

          (C) Mughal emperore

          (D) None of these

Q.4   He was the pioneer in the field of painting

          (A) Nand Lal Bose

          (B) Raja Ravi Verma

          (C) Rabindranath Tagore

          (D) Jamini Roy

Fill In The Blanks

Q.1   The art form which observed carefully and tried to capture exactly what the eye saw is called _________.

Q.2   The style of painting which showed Indian landscape as a quaint, unexplored land is called _________.

Q.3   Paintings which showed the social lives of Europeans in India are called _________.

Q.4   Paintings which depicted scenes from British imperial history and their victories are called _________.

General Terms

1.      Convention : An accepted norm or style.

2.      Portrait : A picture of a person in which the face and its expression is prominent

3.      Portraiture : The art of making portraits

4.      Engraving : A picture printed onto paper from a piece of wood or metal into which the design or drawing has been cut

5.      Mural : A wall painting

6.      Scroll painting : Painting on a long roll of paper that could be rolled up

Why did some artists produce cheap popular prints? What influence would such prints have had on the minds of people who looked at them?

Why do you think some artists wanted to develop a national style of art?

In what way did the British history paintings in India reflect the attitudes of imperial conquerors?

 Why can we think of Raja Ravi Varma's paintings as national?

Why did the scroll painters and potters come to Kalighat? Why did they begin to paint new themes?

Describe in your own words one painting from this chapter which suggests that the British were more powerful than Indians. How does the artist depict this?

Point out which of the following were brought in with British art:

(a) oil painting (b) miniatures (c) life-size portrait painting (d) use of perspective (e) mural art

Fill in the blanks:

(a) The art form which observed carefully and tried to capture exactly what the eye saw is called ___________.

(b) The style of painting which showed Indian landscape as a quaint, unexplored land is called __________.

(c) Paintings which showed the social lives of Europeans in India are called _________.

(d) Paintings which depicted scenes from British imperial history and their victories are called ____________.