Practice

Question 101

When was the Delhi Silpi Chakra Group founded?

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Correct answer: (B) 25 March, 1949

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Question 102

Sewak Ram was a well-established artist of which style of painting?

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Correct answer: (C) Patna Kalam

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Question 103

The covering of many varieties of creative expression, such as painting, sculpture, poetry, music, dance and architecture, is called

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Correct answer: (A) kala arts

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Question 104

Who created a large body of paintings, drawings, watercolours and oleographs in the British academic tradition?

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Correct answer: (C) Raja Ravi Varma

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Question 105

Which Mughal emperor claimed to have discovered so many different master artworks that he could trace each painter’s stroke in the artwork?

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Correct answer: (B) Emperor Jahangir

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Question 106

Masulipatnam was the great centre of the traditional art of which style?

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Correct answer: (A) Kalamkari

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Question 107

Which Mughal painter, a colourist by preference, was given the title Nadir-uz-Zaman by the sovereign?

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Correct answer: (A) Abul Hasan

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Question 108

The most prominent decorative work that had been a feature of Mughal architecture since the time of Jahangir was

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Correct answer: (C) Pietra Dura

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Question 109

Who was the inventor of photography?

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Correct answer: (C) Daguerre

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Question 110

The greatest master of engraving in the 16th century was

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Correct answer: (B) Albrecht Dürer

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Question 111

The various forms of communication that carry advertising are known as the

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Correct answer: (A) media

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Question 112

The basic material of all types of pottery is

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Correct answer: (C) clay

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Question 113

What types of art are found in Badami Caves?

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Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above

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Question 114

The wall paintings found in the Cave of Sittanavasal resemble which style of wall paintings?

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Correct answer: (B) Ajanta style

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Question 115

The famous painter Mola Ram belongs to which Pahari style of painting?

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Correct answer: (B) Garhwal style

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Question 116

The white clay, also called kaolin, is used for making

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Correct answer: (B) porcelain

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Question 117

Which type of artwork made from clay is fired at higher temperatures to make it much harder?

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Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above

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Question 118

Where was Pop art very widely accepted?

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Correct answer: (B) USA

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Question 119

Trinale is an International Contemporary Art Exhibition organized every

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Correct answer: (B) three years

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Question 120

Who is the famous painter of the Pahari style?

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Correct answer: (A) Nainsukh

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Question 121

The form of art in which optical illusions are created is called

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Correct answer: (C) Op art

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Question 122

An art that has imagery of folk art, emphasizes form and expression, and often looks child-like, is called

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Correct answer: (A) primitive art

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Question 123

Representing three-dimensional form and space on a flat surface is called

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Correct answer: (C) perspective

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Question 124

During whose reign was the great temple at Brihadeshwara in Thanjavur built?

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Correct answer: (A) Cholas

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Question 125

The first Indian School of Art was started at

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Correct answer: (C) Madras

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Question 126

To which period does the seated image of Buddha found at Katra (Mathura) belong?

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Correct answer: (B) Kushana

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Question 127

The Dhvani Siddhant of Indian aesthetics was propounded by

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Correct answer: (A) Anand Vardhan

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Question 128

Which of the following pairs of names are related?

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Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above

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Question 129

Choose the sequence in chronological order.

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Correct answer: (C) Patta painting, Revivalist, Progressive, Abstraction

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Question 130

1930s Op art derived from the constructivist practices of the

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Correct answer: (A) Bauhaus School

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Question 131

In the ‘Bullfight’ series, Picasso used

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Correct answer: (A) offset lithography

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Question 132

‘Master of Colours’: choose the name of the great artist.

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Correct answer: (C) Henri Matisse

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Question 133

The ‘Fountain’ Dadaism installation work was done by

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Correct answer: (B) Marcel Duchamp

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Question 134

Post-impressionism art was coined by

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Correct answer: (B) Roger Fry

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Question 135

Evidence of the earliest rock-cut architecture was found at

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Correct answer: (B) Lomas Rishi Caves

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Question 136

Lothal and Kalibangan both are

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Correct answer: (C) Harappan sites

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Question 137

Name the famous European painter who invariably depicted long necks on female figures.

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Correct answer: (B) Modigliani

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Question 138

William Blake represents which phase of art?

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Correct answer: (A) Romanticism

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Question 139

Three-dimensional art is known as

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Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above

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Question 140

Name the painter of “Jallianwala Bagh—Symbol of Urge for Freedom”.

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Correct answer: (C) Pran Nath Mago

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Question 141

Which art gradually replaced the Romanesque style from the mid-12th century?

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Correct answer: (B) Gothic art

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Question 142

Gothic cathedrals, monuments and tombs are decorated with the use of

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Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above

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Question 143

The ‘Sistine Chapel’ at the Vatican is the finest work created by which artist?

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Correct answer: (B) Michelangelo

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Question 144

In the later 16th century, a more dramatic and emotional style of painting is known as

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Correct answer: (C) mannerism

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Question 145

Dadaism gave way to a more sober movement known as

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Correct answer: (B) surrealism

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Question 146

In the United States, Alexander Calder created a new form of sculpture with hanging constructions called

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Correct answer: (B) mobiles art

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Question 147

Which artist used a technique of pouring or dribbling paint onto a canvas as a means of expressing subconscious creative impulses?

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Correct answer: (C) Jackson Pollock

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Question 148

The technique in which a design is scratched onto a metal plate and then eaten away with acid is called

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Correct answer: (C) etching

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Question 149

The method of shaping sculptures by pouring molten metal into a mould is known as

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Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above

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Question 150

Which method uses perspective and foreshortening to make the viewer think the scene depicted is real?

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Correct answer: (B) Illusionism

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TRE2 — Language General Studies And Fine Arts