Name of the Board : CBSE Academic
Class : XII STD
Document Type : Sample Question Paper
Subject : Painting
Year : 2017-18
Website : http://cbseacademic.nic.in/SQP_CLASSXII_2017_18_final.html
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Painting Sample Question Paper :
General Instructions :
(i) All the eight questions are compulsory which carry equal marks.
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(ii) Answers to be written for question nos.1 and 2 in about200 words eachand for question nos. 3, 4 & 5 100 words each. Question nos.6, 7 and 8 are objective type.
1. Describe the main features of the paintings of the Bengal School.
2. Which one do you like or dislike most any of the following Contemporary (Modern) Indian Painting included in your course of study? Give your appropriate reasons in detail dulybased on the aesthetical parameters
(a) Three Girls
(b) The Vulture
(c) Mother Teresa
3. Which human life-values are shown in any of the following Miniature Painting? Explain in short :
(a) Chaugan Players (Rajasthani School)
(b) Bharat Worshipping CharanPadukas of Rama (Pahari School)
4. Evaluate the aesthetic-grandeur of any of the following miniature paintings duly based on the aesthetic-parameters :
(a) Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhana
(b) Dancers
5. How far has its painter been successful in depicting the subject matter of any of the following miniature paintings of the Bengal School
(a) Rasa-lila
(b) Arjuna Detach himself from War
6. Mention the names of any threepainters, a graphic-artist and a sculptor of the contemporary (modern) Indian Art included in your course of study, which you like most.
7. Mention the name of the sub-school of each of the following miniature paintings included in your course of study :
(1) Maru-Ragini (Rajasthani School)
(2) Raja Aniruddhya Singh Hara (Rajasthani School)
(3) Radha (Bani-Thani) (Rajashthani School)
(4) Cosmic Dance of Shiva (Pahari School)
(5) Radha and Krishna Looking into the Mirror (Pahari School)
8. Mention the titles of any five miniature paintings of the Mughal and Deccan Schools included in your course of study, which you like most.
Sample Marking Scheme :
1. This is a knowledge based and long answer type question. A candidate is expected to cover following points while describing the main features of the paintings of the Bengal School
(1) The use of soft water colour in wash and tempera technique, which was a synthesis of the European and Japanese water colour techniques with a traditional Indian Tempera finish and which became the hall-mark of the Bengal School.
(2) The depiction of themes derived from the great Indian epics, mythology, classical literature, romantic past and even from the
contemporary National Freedom Movement.
(3) The creation of mystic and mellow style by using gloomy colouring with diffused light background and absence of any dark line or tone which provide the experience of the astral world.
(4) The delineation of attenuated human figures with extra elongated limbs and tapering fingers, which reflect the influence of the Rajasthani, Mughal and Pahari miniatures. Hence emphasis on the European realism is terminated.
(5) The compositions are contemporary and most simplified and not like that of Ajanta, Rajasthani, Mughal or Pahari miniatures.
(6) The significance of line is re-established. The rendering of delicate, smooth, rhythmic and sinuous lines with overdue emphasis on drawing.
(7) The figures seem to have bathed in a luminous and timeless ambient.
(8) The foreign made drawing paper is used. 5 marks
2. This is an application skill and long answer type question. A candidate is expected to select any of the following three contemporary (modern) Indian Paintings included in the course of study, which he/she may like or dislikes most
(a) Three Girls (done by Amrita Sher Gil)
(b) The Vulture (done by Kamlesh Dutt Pande)
(c) Mother Teresa (done by M.F. Hussain)
A candidate is expected to give his/her appropriate reasons in details duly based on the aesthetic parameters-viz. The fundamentals if Visual Arts (Elements and Principles). 5 marks Division of Marks (With regard to the depiction of the subject-matter)
(i) The Elements 2½ marks
(ii) The Principles 2½ marks
3. This is value-based, application-skill and short answer type question. A candidate is expected to recall ad visualize any of the following miniature-paintings included in the course of study
(a) Chaugan-Players (Rajasthani School and Jodhpur Sub-School)
(b) Bharat Worshipping Charan-Padukas of Rama (Pahari School and Guler Sub-School)
A candidate may perceive many and different human life-values mentioned following in that particular painting according to his/her own observation perception/experience and may express accordingly
(a) Love to sport activity, team-spirit, doing the best, fair competition, respect to herself as well as to rivals and love to animals etc.
(b) Love and respect to elders, selflessness, detachment from the royal luxuries etc. 5 marks