Class 08 Social Science History The Changing World Of Visual Arts CBSE Questions & Answers

Name the Principal of the Calcutta Art Studio in 1896 who redirected Indians towards their indigenous traditions.

Name the brain behind the concept of Mother India which later became a popular painting depicting India as a woman.

Name the important Indian painter who used oil paints as the medium of her paintings and chose villagers as her subject. The picture given below is painted by this great artist.

She started using the Western style of painting, turned to miniature paintings of rural Bengal. Identify the artist who is being referred here as she.

Specialised in painting scenes from Hindi mythology, his paintings defined Indian feminine beauty for several generations of Indians. Identify the artist based on the painting given here

A great poet from Bengal took up painting in his sixties. He chose the unconscious as the source and his paintings were modern and Indian in style. Who is he ?

Name the photographer who came to India in 1860s and set up one of the famous photographic studios in Calcutta, known as Bourne and Shepard.

The British wanted their buildings to express their power and glory and their cultural achievements. Name this building with rounded arches and pillars , the style borrowed from the Classical Greece and Rome.

The image is a pictorial representation of My Mother, painted by a very famous artist. He is the nephew of a great nobel prize winning poet . Identify the painter .

Jatugriha Daha, is a popular painting by a famous artist. The artist is a student of Abanindranath Tagore, who simply did not follow any earlier style. Who is he/she ?

The painting by Abanindranath Tagore, in 1904 is based on a famous poem Meghaduta by a great Classical Sanskrit poet. Name the poet.

Name the book published in Japan by Okakura Kakuzo where he believed that Asia is one. Through the book, he argued that Asia had been humiliated by the West and Asian nations had to collectively resist Western domination.

Okakura Kakuzo visited an important place/ university in India. Name the place/university .

Okakura Kakuzo had a powerful influence on two important people of India. One was Abanindranath Tagore, name the other person

This important painting of the Pine Trees is painted by a very popular Japanese painter .Name the painter