Drawing and Painting Previous Year Question

1. The black and white colour scheme that used in a painting is called
(1) Polychromatic
(2) Achromatic
(3) Monochromatic
(4) None of these

2. What are the three primary colours?
(1) Orange, Green, Violet
(2) Red, Yellow, Blue
(3) Red, Black, Blue
(4) Red, White, Blue

3. Texture is the character of the
(1) Surface
(2) Form
(3) Line
(4) Colour

4. Classification of Texture is divided into
(1) Two parts
(2) Four parts
(3) Eight parts
(4) Three parts

5. Proportion is also known as
(1) Law of Relationship
(2) Law of Sketching
(3) Law of Line
(4) None of these

6. The Madhubani style of painting got developed in which state?
(1) Madhya Pradesh
(2) Rajasthan
(3) Bihar
(4) Gujarat

7. Which of the following region, that is situated in the Mahadev Hill Range at Madhya Pradesh?
(1) Panchmadhi
(2) Raigarh
(3) Raipur
(4) Mirzapur

8. The primarily theme of the prehistoric art was
(1) Nature Sceneries
(2) Hunting Sceneries
(3) Mountain Sceneries
(4) Human Figure

9. Which of the following center that related to prehistoric art center?
(1) Hoshangabad
(2) Mirzapur
(3) Adamgarh
(4) All of these

10. Prehistoric paintings were painted on the
(1) Cave wall
(2) Paper
(3) Cloth
(4) Canvas

11. Bhim Betka caves are situated at
(1) Rajasthan
(2) Bihar
(3) Uttar Pradesh
(4) Madhya Pradesh

12. Who owes the credit of the discovery of Panchmadhi cave paintings?
(1) D.H. Garden
(2) Manoranjan Ghosh
(3) Stouart Pigot
(4) None of these

13. Panchmadhi caves are situated on the bank of river
(1) Narmada
(2) Kaveri
(3) Yamuna
(4) Ganga

14. In 1910, the discovery of the significant rock drawings of Singhanpur credit goes to
(1) Amalanand Ghosh
(2) Percy Brown
(3) C.W. Anderson
(4) Carlyle

15. The art of home-making by human was started in the period of
(1) Paleolithic age
(2) Mesolithic age
(3) Neolithic age
(4) None of these

16. What was ‘communicated by prehistoric man in the minimum lines?
(1) Powerful expression of feelings
(2) Movement of animals
(3) Different figures
(4) None of these

17. In 1958, who discovered the prehistoric paintings of Bhim Betka?
(1) V.S. Vakankar
(2) Dr. Abhai Verma
(3) Percy Brown
(4) None of these

18. Which of the followings is the significance features of prehistoric cave paintings?
(1) Self satisfaction and convey his feelings to others.
(2) To express the uncomplicated and joyous nature of his existence.
(3) To tell the story of faith and belief.
(4) All of these

19. Who discovered more paintings in the Panchmadhi area and published his findings in “Prehistoric Exploration in India” in 1948?
(1) G.R. Hunter
(2) F.R. Alichin
(3) Amalanand Ghosh
(4) D.H. Gardan

20. Ghodmangar rock shelters are located in the Vindhyan Range near
(1) Mirzapur
(2) Bellari
(3) Raigarh
(4) None of these

21. The Indus Valley Civilizations digging was started first from
(1) Ropad
(2) Harappa
(3) Dholavira
(4) None of these

22. Which metal has been abundantly used by the Indus Valley Civilians?
(1) Octal metal
(2) Zinc
(3) White Gold
(4) Copper

23. Bellary caves are discovered in 1892 by an English Officer
(1) F. Fasant
(2) C.W. Anderson
(3) Percy Brown
(4) None of these

24. Cunningham had discovered Harappa mound in the year
(1) 1888
(2) 1878
(3) 1868
(4) 1870

25. The Harappan script is known as
(1) Devanagari
(2) Braille
(3) Hieroglyphs
(4) None of these

26. The most exciting among the excavations at Mohenjo-Daro is “Dancing girl’ that made of
(1) Selkheri
(2) Clay
(3) Bronze
(4) Copper

27. The most important sculpture piece found at Mohenjo-Daro is a bust size of a bearded moustached man with a round ornament on the forehead and a show on his left shoulder known as
(1) Priest
(2) King
(3) Dancer
(4) None of these

28. The excellent remnants of the Indus Valley Civilization are found in the wide expanse are
(1) well organized urban plan
(2) wall paintings
(3) Tapestry
(4) None of these

29. Jogimara caves are situated on Raigarh hills of
(1) Sarguja region
(2) Mirzapur region
(3) Raipur region
(4) None of these

30. Sita Bengara cave is significant for being a
(1) Art Gallery
(2) Theatre
(3) Residence
(4) None of these

31. Ajanta is one of the oldest monasteries of India, that group of cave temples, is situated in which city of Maharashtra State?
(1) Pune
(2) Mumbai
(3) Jalgaon
(4) Aurangabad

32. Which pavilions are situated in semi-circular valley of the Satpura hills, where the river Baghora takes a turn?
(1) Jogimara
(2) Bagh
(3) Ajanta
(4) Sigiria

33. The painting of ‘Bodhisatva Padmpani” is depicted in the Ajanta cave temple number
(1) Sixteen
(2) Nine
(3) Two
(4) One

34. The masterpiece is commonly known as the “Dying Princess” is depicted in Ajanta cave number
(1) Seventeen
(2) Sixteen
(3) Two
(4) Six

35. Rock cut temples of Bagh is situated in the district Dhar of Madhya Pradesh on the bank of river
(1) Baghora
(2) Baghim
(3) Kaveri
(4) Narmada

36. Cave temple number-3 at Bagh used to be called
(1) Rangmahal
(2) Hathikhana
(3) Pandavas cave
(4) Pathshala

37. How many cave temples are in Bagh?
(1) Nine
(2) Six
(3) Eight
(4) Ten

38. The paintings are still existing in the Ajanta cave temple clusters :
(1) 1, 3, 8, 5, 6, 2
(2) 1, 2,9, 10, 16, 17
(3) 21, 25, 28, 13, 18
(4) 7,8, 11, 6, 19, 20

39. Which of the following painting is depicted in Ajanta cave temple number-2?
(1) Bodhisattva Vajrapani
(2) Worship of Bodhi tree
(3) Dying Princess
(4) Maharani Maya’s dream and conception

40. Bagh cave temple’s remains of paintings can be seen in
(1) Cave temple number 4 and 5
(2) Cave temple number 1 and 3
(3) Cave temple number 4 and 8
(4) Cave temple number 8 and 9

41. Who has prepared sketches of Bagh cave paintings?
(1) Asit Kumar Haldar
(2) Nand Lal Bose
(3) Avanindranath Tagore
(4) None of these

42. The river Baghini a tributary of which river, whose banks are lustrous with Bagh caves?
(1) Kaveri
(2) Yamuna
(3) Narmada
(4) Satluj

43. The Badami rock cut temples lies in which State?
(1) Karnataka
(2) Tamil Nadu
(3) Kerala
(4) Maharashtra

44. How many caves are in Badami, located in a single hill?
(1) Four
(2) Nine
(3) Ten
(4) Six

45. Which number of cave is important from the point of view of painting at Badami?
(1) Fourth
(2) Second
(3) Third
(4) None of these

46. The cave paintings of Badami belongs to which religion?
(1) Shaiva
(2) Vaishnav
(3) Jainism
(4) All of these

47. The caves which are located at ‘Padukotta’ near Tanjore in Tamil Nadu known as
(1) Badami
(2) Sittannavasal
(3) Sigiria
(4) Ellora

48. A beautiful lotus pond has been depicted in the caves of Sittan vasal on the
(1) Ceiling
(2) Wall
(3) Pillar
(4) None of these

49. Pal school grew up in eastern India during
(1) 11% century
(2) 10% century
(3) 6th century
(4) 9th century

50. The paintings of Pal Style are connected to which religion and philosophy?
(1) Jainism
(2) Buddhism
(3) Shaivism
(4) Hinduism