Fine Arts Test - 9

The correct answer is All of these.

Key Points

• The graphic paintings such as Landscape of Turkey, Xiyan China, Man, Woman and Tree etc are created by artist K. Laxma Goud.
• K. Laxma Goud:
  • Kalal Laxma Goud is an Indian painter, printmaker and draughtsman from Andhra Pradesh.
  • He works in a variety of mediums including etching, gouache, pastel, sculpture, and glass painting.
  • He is best known for his early drawings that depict eroticism in a rural context.
  • Goud is a pioneer in the art of printmaking and painting.

• Paintings: Landscape of Turkey and Man, Woman and Tree by K. Laxma Goud (from left to right)

Key Points

• Whirlpool:
  • This was a print art made by India’s celebrated printmaker  Krishna Reddy in 1963.
  • It is a  captivating composition created out of various shades of blue. 
  • Each color blends into the other to create a powerful web of design.
  • He developed this graphic painting along with a well-known printmaker, Stanley William Hayter in the famous studio called ‘Atelier 17 ’located in Paris.
  • It is the result of a new technique in printmaking that he developed known as viscosity printing.
  • This celebrated print is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA.

• Whirlpool by Krishna Reddy

Additional Information

• Of Walls:
  • It is painted by artist Anupam Sud.
  • She creates an interesting form of a woman by hollowing out the face. The absence of a face gives it a brooding and sad expression.
  • The painting depicts the figure of a lonely woman seating on the pavement before an old and broken wall. In the foreground, there is only a glimpse of two legs of a poor man lying down on the ground. Maybe he is her husband and he is dead due to poverty, contrasting with the clothed woman, and adding to the sadness of the picture. Her face has been shown black colour without any expression means she has no existence now in the living world. So, socially she is also dead like her husband.
  • The print is a powerfully protests by the artist against a society erecting such walls based on caste, religion and status.

• Of Walls by Anupam Sud
• Children:
  • This is a graphic print on paper done with monochromatic etching with aquatint made by Somnath Hore.
  • The experience of the Bengal Famine of 1943, left a lasting impression on him.
  • His early sketches and drawings were spot and life drawings of helpless victims of the famine, suffering and dying peasants,  sick and infirm destitute, and portraits of men, women, children and animals.
  • In this painting, images of children were taken from the experience of the famine of 1943, which was etched in his memory. There are five standing figures, having no background. The figures are linear, each with a skeletal torso of a huge malaria spleen and a rib cage for the thorax. Supporting a huge skull, with a small face, the whole body is seen resting on two stick-like legs.
  • The effect of malnutrition can be visible clearly in the narrative. There is a sense of a lot of pain and suffering in the picture.
  • Somnath Hore’s other artworks include Peasant's Meeting, Wounded Animal, the Child, Mother with Child, Mourners and the Unclad Beggar Family etc.

• Children by Somnath Hore
• Man, Women and Tree: 
  • ​‘Man, Women and Tree’ is one of the best-known graphic prints of K. Laxma Goud in 2017.
  • It was printed by applying the technique of ‘Lithography’.
  • The painting depicts four trees that have been shown in the background. Under a tree a well-decorated woman has been shown sitting
    wearing a saree and blouse; her hair in the shape of a plate is tied backwards; her hands are forward and one of them is put on the other. Nearby, under a group of trees, a young man is sitting. They both are looking at each other with reflective sights.
  • This is the expression of natural attraction between man and woman and their connection with nature.

• Man, Woman and Tree by K.Laxma Goud

Key Points 

• Man, Women and Tree: 
  • ​‘Man, Women and Tree’ is one of the best-known graphic prints of K. Laxma Goud in 2017.
  • It was printed by applying the technique of ‘Lithography’.
  • The painting depicts four trees that have been shown in the background. Under a tree a well-decorated woman has been shown sitting
    wearing a saree and blouse; her hair in the shape of a plate is tied backwards; her hands are forward and one of them is put on the other. Nearby, under a group of trees, a young man is sitting. They both are looking at each other with reflective sights.
  • This is the expression of natural attraction between man and woman and their connection with nature.
• K.Laxma Goud:
  • Kalal Laxma Goud is an Indian painter, printmaker and draughtsman from Andhra Pradesh.
  • He works in a variety of mediums including etching, gouache, pastel, sculpture, and glass painting.
  • He is best known for his early drawings that depict eroticism in a rural context.
  • Goud is a pioneer in the art of printmaking and painting.

• Man, Woman and Tree by K. Laxma Goud

Additional Information

• Jyoti Bhatt:
  • He studied painting, printmaking and photography, and was inspired by his mentor K. G. Subrahmanyan.
  • He carved out an artistic language based on folk traditions and popular rural practice. His works occupy a tenuous balance between pace tradition and modernity.
  • He was honoured with Padma Shri in 2019.
  • He was one of the fellows of  Lalit Kala Akademi.
  • 'Devi' is one of the best graphic print works.
• Krishna Reddy:
  • He was a printmaker born in Andhra Pradesh.
  • He developed a new technique of 'viscosity printing' which involved applying multiple colours to the same metal plate.
  • His main focus was on humanity and nature.
  • Some of his notable works include Whirlpool, Bull and Man, Dag etc.
• Anupam Sud:
  • Anupam Sud had studied printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London, in the early 1970s
  • When she returned to India, she was drawn to its everyday reality.
  • Apart from her deep interest in social problems faced by people, belonging to marginalised communities in society, she was keen to understand them artistically.
  • 'Of Walls' is one of her most celebrated artwork.

The correct answer is Of Walls.

Key Points 

• Of Walls:
  • It is painted by artist Anupam Sud.
  • She creates an interesting form of a woman by hollowing out the face. The absence of a face gives it a brooding and sad expression.
  • The painting depicts the figure of a lonely woman seating on the pavement before an old and broken wall. In the foreground, there is only a glimpse of two legs of a poor man lying down on the ground. Maybe he is her husband and he is dead due to poverty, contrasting with the clothed woman, and adding to the sadness of the picture. Her face has been shown black-colored without any expression means she has no existence now in the living world. So, socially she is also dead like her husband.
  • The print is a powerfully protests by the artist against a society erecting such walls based on caste, religion and status.

• Of Walls by Anupam Sud

Additional Information

• Children:
  • This is a graphic print on paper done with monochromatic etching with aquatint made by Somnath Hore.
  • The experience of the Bengal Famine of 1943, left a lasting impression on him.
  • His early sketches and drawings were spot and life drawings of helpless victims of the famine, suffering and dying peasants,  sick and infirm destitute, and portraits of men, women, children and animals.
  • In this painting, images of children were taken from the experience of the famine of 1943, which was etched in his memory. There are five standing figures, having no background. The figures are linear, each with a skeletal torso of a huge malaria spleen and a rib cage for the thorax. Supporting a huge skull, with a small face, the whole body is seen resting on two stick-like legs.
  • The effect of malnutrition can be visible clearly in the narrative. There is a sense of a lot of pain and suffering in the picture.
  • Somnath Hore’s other artworks include Peasant's Meeting, Wounded Animal, the Child, Mother with Child, Mourners and the Unclad Beggar Family etc.

• Children by Somnath Hore
• Man, Women and Tree: 
  • ​‘Man, Women and Tree’ is one of the best-known graphic prints of K. Laxma Goud in 2017.
  • It was printed by applying the technique of ‘Lithography’.
  • The painting depicts four trees that have been shown in the background. Under a tree a well-decorated woman has been shown sitting
    wearing a saree and blouse; her hair in the shape of a plate is tied backwards; her hands are forward and one of them is put on the other. Nearby, under a group of trees, a young man is sitting. They both are looking at each other with reflective sights.
  • This is the expression of natural attraction between man and woman and their connection with nature.

• Man, Woman and Tree by K. laxma Goud
• Whirlpool:
  • This was a print art made by India’s celebrated printmaker  Krishna Reddy in 1963.
  • It is a  captivating composition created out of various shades of blue. 
  • Each color blends into the other to create a powerful web of design.
  • He developed this graphic painting along with a well-known printmaker, Stanley William Hayter in the famous studio called ‘Atelier 17 ’located in Paris.
  • It is the result of a new technique in printmaking that he developed known as viscosity printing.
  • This celebrated print is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA.

• Whirlpool by Krishna Reddy

The correct answer is Devi.

Key Points

• Devi:
  • Painted ​by Jyoti Bhatt, In this print, the pictorial image of Devi is re-cast and recontextualized with a linear drawing of the frontal face of a woman, folk motifs and patterns.
  • The portrait of Dent is centrally placed as an iconic image
  • The two-dimensional words and motifs around the portrait express the Tantric philosophy, evoking the power of self-evolution and self-involution,femininity and fertility seeing the reality of the dynamic and static principle of Shakti.

• Devi by Jyoti Bhatt

Additional Information

• Man, Women and Tree: 
  • ​‘Man, Women and Tree’ is one of the best-known graphic prints of K. Laxma Goud in 2017.
  • It was printed by applying the technique of ‘Lithography’.
  • The painting depicts four trees that have been shown in the background. Under a tree a well-decorated woman has been shown sitting
    wearing a saree and blouse; her hair in the shape of a plate is tied backwards; her hands are forward and one of them is put on the other. Nearby, under a group of trees, a young man is sitting. They both are looking at each other with reflective sights.
  • This is the expression of natural attraction between man and woman and their connection with nature.

• Man, Woman and Tree by K. Laxma Goud
• Of Walls:
  • It is painted by artist Anupam Sud.
  • She creates an interesting form of a woman by hollowing out the face. The absence of a face gives it a brooding and sad expression.
  • The painting depicts the figure of a lonely woman seating on the pavement before an old and broken wall. In the foreground, there is only a glimpse of two legs of a poor man lying down on the ground. Maybe he is dead due to poverty, contrasting with the clothed woman, and adding to the sadness of the picture.

• Of Walls by Anupam Sud
• Children:
  • This is a graphic print on paper done with monochromatic etching with aquatint made by Somnath Hore.
  • The experience of the Bengal Famine of 1943, left a lasting impression on him.
  • His early sketches and drawings were spot and life drawings of helpless victims of the famine, suffering and dying peasants,  sick and infirm destitute, and portraits of men, women, children and animals.
  • In this painting, images of children were taken from the experience of the famine of 1943, which was etched in his memory. There are five standing figures, having no background. The figures are linear, each with a skeletal torso of a huge malaria spleen and a rib cage for the thorax. Supporting a huge skull, with a small face, the whole body is seen resting on two stick-like legs.
  • The effect of malnutrition can be visible clearly in the narrative. There is a sense of a lot of pain and suffering in the picture.
  • Somnath Hore’s other artworks include Peasant's Meeting, Wounded Animal, the Child, Mother with Child, Mourners and the Unclad Beggar Family etc.

• Children by Somnath Hore

The correct answer is Of Walls.

Key Points

• Of Walls:
  • It is painted by artist Anupam Sud.
  • The painting was created with a mixture of lithograph technique and photographic images with drawn areas to bring together the subject
    with objective reality to contrast the unfeeling background with pulsating lively human form.
  • She creates an interesting form of a woman by hollowing out the face. The absence of a face gives it a brooding and sad expression.
  • The painting depicts the figure of a lonely woman seating on the pavement before an old and broken wall. In the foreground, there is only a glimpse of two legs of a poor man lying down on the ground. Maybe he is dead due to poverty, contrasting with the clothed woman, and adding to the sadness of the picture.

Additional Information 

• Children:
  • This is a graphic print on paper done with monochromatic etching with aquatint made by Somnath Hore.
  • The experience of the Bengal Famine of 1943, left a lasting impression on him.
  • His early sketches and drawings were spot and life drawings of helpless victims of the famine, suffering and dying peasants,  sick and infirm destitute, and portraits of men, women, children and animals.
  • In this painting, images of children were taken from the experience of the famine of 1943, which was etched in his memory. There are five standing figures, having no background. The figures are linear, each with a skeletal torso of a huge malaria spleen and a rib cage for the thorax. Supporting a huge skull, with a small face, the whole body is seen resting on two stick-like legs.
  • The effect of malnutrition can be visible clearly in the narrative. There is a sense of a lot of pain and suffering in the picture.
  • Somnath Hore’s other artworks include Peasant's Meeting, Wounded Animal, the Child, Mother with Child, Mourners and the Unclad Beggar Family etc.

• Devi:
  • Painted ​by Jyoti Bhatt, In this print, the pictorial image of Devi is re-cast and re-contextualised with a linear drawing of the frontal face of a woman, folk motifs and patterns.
  • The portrait of Dent is centrally placed as an iconic image
  • The two-dimensional words and motifs around the portrait express the Tantric philosophy, evoking the power of self-evolution and self-involution, seeing the reality of the dynamic and static principle of Shakti.

• Whirlpool:
  • This was a print art made by India’s celebrated printmaker  Krishna Reddy in 1963.
  • It is a  captivating composition created out of various shades of blue. 
  • Each colour blends into the other to create a powerful web of design.
  • He developed this graphic painting along with a well-known printmaker, Stanley William Hayter in the famous studio called ‘Atelier 17 ’located in Paris.
  • It is the result of a new technique in printmaking that he developed known as viscosity printing.
  • This celebrated print is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA.

The correct answer is Of Walls.

Key Points 

• Of Walls:
  • It is painted by artist Anupam Sud.
  • She creates an interesting form of a woman by hollowing out the face. The absence of a face gives it a brooding and sad expression.
  • The painting depicts the figure of a lonely woman seating on the pavement before an old and broken wall. In the foreground, there is only a glimpse of two legs of a poor man lying down on the ground. Maybe he is dead due to poverty, contrasting with the clothed woman, and adding to the sadness of the picture.

• Of Walls by Anupam Sud

Additional Information

Children, Wounded Animal and Mourners and Unclad Beggar Family are graphic paintings created by artist Somnath Hore.

• Somnath Hore:
  • Somnath Hore's intense practice spanned painting, printmaking and sculpture, but he was interested in the human suffering brought by war, famine other devastating occurrences.
  • Hore, who was born in Bangladesh, was greatly affected by the violence he experienced growing up in a colonist state. Events like the 1943 Bengal Famine and the peasant movement of Tebhaga of 1946 galvanized his work which emaciated human forms and chaotic situations.
  • He was also involved with socialist politics, and ideologically followed Marxism and this combined with his anti-colonial focus in his paintings made him a Modernist icon of the Indian subcontinent.

• Wounded Animal, Children and Mourners and Unclad Beggar Family by Somnath Hore (from left to right)

The correct answer is Whirlpool.

Key Points

• Whirlpool:
  • This was a print art made by India’s celebrated printmaker  Krishna Reddy in 1963.
  • It is a  captivating composition created out of various shades of blue. 
  • Each colour blends into the other to create a powerful web of design.
  • He developed this graphic painting along with a well-known printmaker, Stanley William Hayter in the famous studio called ‘Atelier 17 ’located in Paris.
  • It is the result of a new technique in printmaking that he developed known as viscosity printing.
  • This celebrated print is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA.

• Whirlpool by Krishna Reddy

Additional Information

• Of Walls:
  • It is painted by artist Anupam Sud.
  • She creates an interesting form of a woman by hollowing out the face. The absence of a face gives it a brooding and sad expression.
  • The painting depicts the figure of a lonely woman seating on the pavement before an old and broken wall. In the foreground, there is only a glimpse of two legs of a poor man lying down on the ground. Maybe he is dead due to poverty, contrasting with the clothed woman, and adding to the sadness of the picture.

• Of Walls by Anupam Sud
• Children:
  • This is a graphic print on paper done with monochromatic etching with aquatint made by Somnath Hore.
  • The experience of the Bengal Famine of 1943, left a lasting impression on him.
  • His early sketches and drawings were spot and life drawings of helpless victims of the famine, suffering and dying peasants,  sick and infirm destitute, and portraits of men, women, children and animals.
  • In this painting, images of children were taken from the experience of the famine of 1943, which was etched in his memory. There are five standing figures, having no background. The figures are linear, each with a skeletal torso of a huge malaria spleen and a rib cage for the thorax. Supporting a huge skull, with a small face, the whole body is seen resting on two stick-like legs.
  • The effect of malnutrition can be visible clearly in the narrative. There is a sense of a lot of pain and suffering in the picture.
  • Somnath Hore’s other artworks include Peasant's Meeting, Wounded Animal, the Child, Mother with Child, Mourners and the Unclad Beggar Family etc.

• Children by Somnath Hore
• Man, Women and Tree: 
  • ​‘Man, Women and Tree’ is one of the best-known graphic prints of K. Laxma Goud in 2017.
  • It was printed by applying the technique of ‘Lithography’.
  • The painting depicts four trees that have been shown in the background. Under a tree a well-decorated woman has been shown sitting
    wearing a saree and blouse; her hair in the shape of a plate is tied backwards; her hands are forward and one of them is put on the other. Nearby, under a group of trees, a young man is sitting. They both are looking at each other with reflective sights.
  • This is the expression of natural attraction between man and woman and their connection with nature.

• Man, Woman and Tree

The correct answer is Of Walls.​

Key Points 

• Of Wall:
  • It is painted by artist Anupam Sud.
  • She creates an interesting form of a woman by hollowing out the face. The absence of a face gives it a brooding and sad expression.
  • The painting depicts the figure of a lonely woman seating on the pavement before an old and broken wall. In the foreground, there is only a glimpse of two legs of a poor man lying down on the ground. Maybe he is dead due to poverty, contrasting with the clothed woman, and adding to the sadness of the picture.

• Jyoti Bhatt:
  • He studied painting, printmaking and photography, and was inspired by his mentor K. G. Subrahmanyan.
  • He carved out an artistic language based on folk traditions and popular rural practice. His works occupy a tenuous balance between pace tradition and modernity.
  • He was honored with Padma Shri in 2019.
  • He was one of the fellows of  Lalit Kala Akademi.
  • 'Devi' is one of the best graphic print works.
  • Bhatt also made artworks like Kalpvruksha, Self-Portrait, Forgotten Monuments, Sita’s Parrot, Still Life with Two Lamps, Scattered Image under the Warm Sky, Tirthankara etc.

• Kalpvruksha, Sita's Parrot, Still Life with Two Lamps (from left to right)

Additional Information

• Anupam Sud:
  • Anupam Sud had studied printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London, in the early 1970s
  • When she returned to India, she was drawn to its everyday reality. Apart from her deep interest in social problems faced by people, belonging to marginalised communities in society, she was keen to understand them artistically.
  • 'Of Walls' is one of her most celebrated artwork.

The correct answer is Whirlpool.

Key Points 

• Whirlpool:
  • This was a print art made by India’s celebrated printmaker  Krishna Reddy in 1963.
  • It is a  captivating composition created out of various shades of blues.  Each colour blends into the other to create a powerful web of design.
  • It is the result of a new technique in printmaking that he developed known as viscosity printing.
  • This celebrated print is in the collection of the Metropolitan Art, New York.  

• Whirlpool by Krishna Reddy

Additional Information

• Painting Children:
  • This is a graphic print on paper done with monochromatic etching with aquatint made by Somnath Hore.
  • The experience of the Bengal Famine of 1943, left a lasting impression on him.
  • His early sketches and drawings were spot and life drawings of helpless victims of the famine, suffering and dying peasants,  sick and infirm destitute, and portraits of men, women, children and animals.
  • In this painting, images of children were taken from the experience of the famine of 1943, which was etched in his memory. There are five standing figures, having no background. The figures are linear, each with a skeletal torso of a huge malaria spleen and a rib cage for the thorax. Supporting a huge skull, with a small face, the whole body is seen resting on two stick-like legs.
  • The effect of malnutrition can be visible clearly in the narrative. There is a sense of a lot of pain and suffering in the picture.
  • Somnath Hore’s other artworks include Peasant's Meeting, Wounded Animal, the Child, Mother with Child, Mourners and the Unclad Beggar Family etc.

• Children by Somnath Hore

• Devi:
  • It is painted by artist Jyoti Bhatt.
  • ​In this print, the pictorial image of Devi is re-cast and re-contextualised with a linear drawing of the frontal face of a woman, folk motifs and patterns.
  • The portrait of Dent is centrally placed as an iconic image
  • The two-dimensional words and motifs around the portrait express the Tantric philosophy, evoking the power of self-evolution and self-involution, seeing the reality of the dynamic and static principle of Shakti.

• Devi by Jyoti Bhatt
• Of Wall:
  • It is painted by artist Anupam Sud.
  • She creates an interesting form of a woman by hollowing out the face. The absence of a face gives it a brooding and sad expression.
  • The painting depicts the figure of a lonely woman seating on the pavement before an old and broken wall. In the foreground, there is only a glimpse of two legs of a poor man lying down on the ground. Maybe he is dead due to poverty, contrasting with the clothed woman, and adding to the sadness of the picture.

• Of Walls by Anupam Sud