Test Your Knowledge

1. Founded by artists MF Husain, FN Souza, KH Ara, SH Raza, HA Gade and S Bakre, the ______________ Artists’ Group worked to fracture colonial traces and carve a new and modern path for Indian art.

2. Which among the following descriptions can be best applied to MF Husain’s ‘Man’? You may select more than one answer.

3. Featured here is the self-portrait of an artist painted in a style similar to that of Picasso. Describing himself as a revolutionary modernist, he was known for his controversial depictions of Jesus, women and the human nude. Identify the artist. 

4. In his artwork ‘Bharata Natya,’ KH Ara depicts Indian classical dancer Ram Gopal’s performance using a traditional aesthetic style that is unique to South Indian art and architecture.

5. VS Gaitonde’s abstract works elude a quiet, meditative quality through their deep tones, harmony and symmetry of form inspired by his study of  ________.

6. What is an accurate definition of ‘abstract art’? You may select more than one answer.

7. Which of the following statements are true about Nasreen Mohamedi’s works? You may select more than one answer.

8. Through the materiality of surfaces of scratched or perforated paper, Zarina speaks of the violence of Partition, personal loss and longing in her Pin Drawing series.

9. Drag and drop the name of the artist to their corresponding artwork that engages with the theme of Partition and its aftermath.

10.  Indian abstraction is a modern invention rooted entirely in the Euro-American art practices of the 1950s.

11. Drag and drop the name of the artist to their corresponding artworks.