Art and Culture


  1. ‘Madhubani’, a style of folk paintings is popular in which of the following states in India ?









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    Madhubani painting is one of the oldest art forms from Mithila region of Bihar. It is also known as Mithila Painting. This form of painting is done with fingers, twigs, brushes, nib-pens, and matchsticks, using natural dyes and pigments, and is characterized by eye-catching geometrical patterns.

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    Madhubani painting is one of the oldest art forms from Mithila region of Bihar. It is also known as Mithila Painting. This form of painting is done with fingers, twigs, brushes, nib-pens, and matchsticks, using natural dyes and pigments, and is characterized by eye-catching geometrical patterns.


  1. The birth place of an iconic personality, Amrita Sher–Gil, is









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    Amrita Sher-Gil, was an eminent Indian painter born to a Punjabi Sikh father and a Hungarian Jewish mother in Budapest, Hungary, in 1913. She is sometimes known as India’s Frida Kahlo, and today considered an important woman painter of 20th century India.

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    Amrita Sher-Gil, was an eminent Indian painter born to a Punjabi Sikh father and a Hungarian Jewish mother in Budapest, Hungary, in 1913. She is sometimes known as India’s Frida Kahlo, and today considered an important woman painter of 20th century India.



  1. A semi-circular structure with a dome shape roof erected over the sacred relics of Buddha is known as









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    A stupa is a mound-like or semi-hemispherical structure containing Buddhist relics, typically the ashes of Buddhist monks, used by Buddhists as a place of meditation. As most characteristically seen at Sanchi in the Great Stupa (2nd–1st century B.C.), the monument consists of a circular base supporting a massive solid dome from which projects an umbrella.

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    A stupa is a mound-like or semi-hemispherical structure containing Buddhist relics, typically the ashes of Buddhist monks, used by Buddhists as a place of meditation. As most characteristically seen at Sanchi in the Great Stupa (2nd–1st century B.C.), the monument consists of a circular base supporting a massive solid dome from which projects an umbrella.


  1. Raja Ravi Verma of Kerala was a distinguished









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    Raja Ravi Varma is related to painting. He was an Indian painter from the princely state of Travancore. His paintings are considered to be among the best example of the fusion of Indian traditions with the techniques of European academic art.

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    Raja Ravi Varma is related to painting. He was an Indian painter from the princely state of Travancore. His paintings are considered to be among the best example of the fusion of Indian traditions with the techniques of European academic art.



  1. What is the field in which Pradosh Dasgupta distinguished himself ?









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    Born in Dacca, Pradosh Das Gupta graduated from the Calcutta University in 1932. He took up sculpture in the same year and received his first training in the subject under two distinguished teachers, Mr. H. Roy Choudhary and Mr. D. P. Roy Choudhary at Lucknow and Madras. He had the distinction of being awarded Guru Prasanna Ghose Travelling Scholarship by the Calcutta University

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    Born in Dacca, Pradosh Das Gupta graduated from the Calcutta University in 1932. He took up sculpture in the same year and received his first training in the subject under two distinguished teachers, Mr. H. Roy Choudhary and Mr. D. P. Roy Choudhary at Lucknow and Madras. He had the distinction of being awarded Guru Prasanna Ghose Travelling Scholarship by the Calcutta University