[Mission 2024] STATIC QUIZ, 7 October 2023 – Art and Culture

Solution: b)

The palace of Chandragupta Maurya was inspired by the Achaemenid palaces at Persepolis in Iran. Wood was the principal building material.

During the time of Ashoka, the inscription of pillars – as a symbol of the state or to commemorate battle victories – assumed a great significance. He also used pillars to propagate imperial sermons as well.

Example: Lauria Nandangarh pillar in Champaran, Sarnath pillar near Varanasi, etc.

Solution: b)

Option 2 is incorrect.

• Karakattam is an ancient folk dance of Tamil Nadu performed in praise of the rain goddess Mariamman. The ancient Tamil epic says that this type of dance has derived from Bharatham and a mixture of multiple forms of Tamil dance forms.
• Tamang Selo is a genre of Nepali Folk song sung by the Tamang people and widely popular amongst the Nepali speaking community in Nepal, India and around the world. It is usually accompanied by Tamang instruments, the Damphu, Madal and Tungna.
• Koli dance is the folk dance of fisher community of Maharashtra. In this dance, we can see the dance movements of girls are inspired from their daily life of fishing. Sea waves, throwing net in the sea, catching fishes are some of those movements

Solution: b)

Statement 1 is incorrect.

Musical instruments like seven-holed flute and Ravanahatha, have been recovered from the sites of Indus Valley Civilization.

The Jaimini Brahmana speaks collectively of dance and music.

Dhrupad is pure music without distraction of words.

Solution: a)

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 which became widely popular in Europe and helped shape Western 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. What the artist produced was expected to look real and lifelike.

European artists also brought with them the technique of oil painting – a technique with which Indian artists were not very familiar. Oil painting enabled artists to produce images that looked real.

Solution: a)

It is a type of scroll painting mainly found in the Bhilwara district. The main themes of the phad paintings depict the deities and their legends and the stories of erstwhile Maharajas.

Therefore, they depict the heroic deeds of a heroic figure, the daily life of a peasant, rural life, animals and birds, flora and fauna.

These paintings are created using bright colours and subtle colours. The outlines of the paintings are first drawn in black and later filled with colours.

Raw colours are used for these paintings. The unique features of phad paintings are the bold lines and a two-dimensional treatment of figures with the entire composition arranged in sections.