AMITY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, MAYUR VIHAR

PRE-BOARD EXAM
CLASS: XII
SUBJECT: PAINTING 049 /SCULPTURE 051
TIME: 2 HOURS. DATE: 08/ 2/ 2021 M.M. 30

General Instructions:

Please write down the section of the question before attempting it.
• All five sections are compulsory to answer
• Section 1 (MCQ) carry 1 mark each (1x6= 6 Marks)
• Section 2 answer to be written in about 30 words each carry 2 marks (2x3= 6 Marks)
• Section 3 answer to be written in about 50 words each carry 3 marks (3x2= 6 Marks)
• Section 4 answer to be written in about 100 words each carry3 marks (3x2= 6 Marks)
• Section 5 answer to be written in about 200-350 words and carry 6 marks (6x1= 6 Marks)
• General instruction: all the five section are compulsory, which carry equal marks.

Section: First 1x 6

1. Answer the following sculptures who created the form contemporary (modern)
Indian Sculpture ‘CRIES UNHEARD’?
a) P.V. Jankiram
b) Aekka Yada Giri Rao
c) Ramkinkar Vaij
d) Amarnath Sehgal

2. Which one of the following art works included in your course of study is not a
Contemporary (Modern) Indian Sculpture?
a) Somnath Hore
b) Amarnath Sehgal
c) P.V. Jankiram
d) D.P. Roy Chaudhary

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 3. Contemporary (Modern) Indian Woman Painter Amrita Sher Gil has used which of
the following mention in his famous Painting “Haldi Grinders”?
a) Oil Colours
b) Water Colours
c) Pastel Colours
d) Acrylic Colours

4. The Indian White colour used in Indian National Flag symbolizes which of the
following?
a) Truth & Peace
b) Courage and Sacrifice
c) Faith and Prosperity
d) Closeness and Stability

5. Match table I with table II and choose correct answer from options given below:
Table I Table II
1. Chaugan Player 1. Guman
2. Krishna on swing 2. Sahibdin
3. Maru-Ragini 3. Dana
4. Bharat Meets Rama at Chitrakuta 4. Nuruddin

Option: 1 2 3 4

(a) ii iii iv i
(b) i ii iii iv
(c) iii iv ii i
(d) iv i iii ii

6. Match table I with table II and choose correct answer from options given below:
Table I Table II

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 1. Krishna with Gopis
2. Nand, Yashoda and Krishna
with Kinsmen going to Vrindavan
3. Maru Ragini
4. Radha (Bani Thani)
Option: 1 2 3 4
1. Mewar Sub-School
2. Basohli Sub-School
3. Kishangarh Sub-School
4. Kangra Sub-School

(a) ii iv i iii
(b) i iii iv ii
(c) iv iii ii i
(d) i ii iii iv

Section: Second

II. Instruction: write the answer for each of the three parts of the question in about 30
words

Evaluate the compositional-arrangement of any of the selected miniature-painting from

each part of the following, duty based on the aesthetic-parameters:

1. Chaugan player (Rajasthani School) Or Krishna with Gopis (Pahari School)

2. Falcon on a Bird-Rest (Mughal School) Or Marriage procession of Dara Shikoh

(Mughal School)

3. Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya and Amir Khusro (Deccan School)

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 Section : Third

III. Instruction: write the answer for each of the both parts of the question in about
100 words

1. On the basis of the following features Identify any one relevant Contemporary
(Modern) artworks included in your course of study, comprising the following
features and explain them in that particular artwork accordingly:

(a) Family as a unit and Practice family value of togetherness and faithfulness. Justify
the statement with the help of print included in your course.

OR

(b) “Teamwork and coordination to overcome the impossible”. Validate the statement
and explain.

2. Identify any relevant painting of the Bengal School included in your course of
study comprising of the following features and explain them in that painting
accordingly.

a) The creation of mystic and mellow style by using gloomy coloring with diffused
light background and absence of any dark line or tone, which provide the
experience of the rural world.
Or
b) The delineation of attenuated human figure with extra elongated limbs and
tapering fingers, which reflect the influence of the Rajasthani, Pahari and Mughal
miniature. hence emphasis on European realism is terminated.

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 Section: Fourth

IV. Instruction: write answer for the question in about 200 words(ANY 2)

1) Appreciate in detail any of the following Mughal or Deccan Miniature-Paintings

based on its

A. Name of the Painter/Sub- School,

B. Medium & Technique,

C. Subject matter and

D. Composition

1. Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhana (Mughal School)

2. Kabir and Raidas (Mughal School)

3. Chand Bibi Playing Polo (Chaugan) (Deccan School)

Section: Fifth

Instruction: Answer to be written in about 200-350 words

V. Why do you like or dislike Rajasthani or Pahari School Miniature paintings ?

Justify your answer with appropriate reasons duly based on the aesthetic parameters
with Origin and Development?

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