The Changing World of Visual Arts

Worksheet 01
1. Kalighat is located in
a. Bombay
b. West Bengal
c. Bihar b. West Bengal
d. Tripura

2. When did Thomas Daniell and William

Daniell come to India?
a. 1855
b. 1755
c. 1765
d. 1786

d. 1786
3. Who among these was a portrait painter?
a. David Wilkie
b. G Farrington
c. Johann Zoffany c. Johann Zoffany,
d. Rober Kerr Porter

4. The following image is a miniature copy by

a local court painter of an oil painting by
the visiting British artist G Farrington d. Id,
depicting a procession on the occasion of an
important festival celebrated by the Muslims.
Name the festival.
a. Milad un Nabi
b. Ramzan
c. Muharram
d. Id
This is a picture of an Id
procession painted by a local
court
painter in the late eighteenth
century. In this painting, we
can see Nawab
Mubarakuddaulah of
Murshidabad.
5. What techniques did the painters of
Murshidabad and Patna adapt from the British
while making postcards?
a. Canvas painting
b. Use of water colours b. Use of watercolours
c. Landscape painting
d. Self-portraits

6. Match the items given in Column A corrects with those given in Column B.
Column A Column B
(i) Thomas Daniell and William Daniell (a) History painting
(ii) Johann Zoffany (b) Picturesque landscape
(iii) Francis Hayman (c) Portrait painting

(i) (b), (ii) (c), (iii) (a)

7. Fill in the blanks:
i. The art form which observed carefully and tried to capture exactly what the eye
realism
saw was called _________.
ii. The style of painting which showed the Indian landscape as a quaint, unexplored
picturesque landscape painting
land is called _________.
portrait
iii. Paintings which showed the social lives of Europeans in India are called __________.
iv. Paintings which depicted scenes from British imperial history and their victories
Imperial history paintings
are called _________.

8. State True or False:

i. The main feature of European paintings was naturalism.
ii. Painting on a long roll of paper is called scroll painting.
iii. Francis Hayman produced the first history paintings.
iv. Mir Zafar was awarded the title of Amir.

i. False
ii. True
iii. True
iv. False
9. Who was Samuel Boume? When did he come to India?

9. Samuel Bourne was a photographer who

came to India in the early 1860s.

10. How did picturesque landscape painting depict India?

This style of painting depicted India as a quaint

land.
11. What was the theme of Ravi Verma’s paintings?

The theme of Ravi Verma’s paintings was

Indian mythology.

12. Write the names of two portraits painted by Johann Zoffany?

The names of two portrait painted by Johann Zoffany were:

i. Portrait of Governor-General Hastings with his wife in their Belvedere estate (in
1784).
ii. The Aurial and Dashwood families of Calcutta (in 1784).
13. What were the New forms of Imperial Art brought by European Artists?

From the eighteenth century, a stream of European artists came to India along with the British
traders and rulers. The artists brought with them new styles and new conventions of painting.
They began producing pictures that became widely popular in Europe and helped shape
estern perceptions of India. European artists brought with them the idea of realism. This was a
belief that artists had to observe carefully and depict faithfully what the eye saw. European
artists also brought with them the technique of oil painting – a technique with which Indian
artists weren't very familiar. Oil painting enabled artists to produce images that looked real.