Bhajju Shyam, the Gond artist who received the Padma Shri in 2018, is best known for which illustrated book?
- A.Bhimayana
- B.The London Jungle Book
- C.The Night Life of Trees
- D.Signature
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, The London Jungle Book. Bhajju Shyam, a nephew of Jangarh Singh Shyam and a painter of the Jangarh Kalam, was invited to London to paint a restaurant and recorded that journey in The London Jungle Book, in which the city is drawn through Gond imagery, the underground train as an earthworm and the double decker bus as a dog. He received the Padma Shri in 2018.
Option A, Bhimayana, is the graphic biography of Dr B. R. Ambedkar illustrated by the Gond artists Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam, which makes it the strongest distractor. Option C, The Night Life of Trees, is a collective book of Gond painting to which several artists of this school contributed. Option D, Signature, is not a work of this tradition. The pairs to remember are Bhajju Shyam with The London Jungle Book and the Vyams with Bhimayana.
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Practice Questions
View allThe Jangarh Kalam style of Gond painting was created by which artist?
- A.Bhuri Bai
- B.Jangarh Singh Shyam
- C.Bhajju Shyam
- D.Jodhaiya Bai Baiga
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A Pardhan Gond of Patangarh village in Dindori district, he was brought to Bhopal in the early nineteen eighties for Roopankar, the gallery of Bharat Bhavan, and turned the Digna wall patterns and the songs of Bada Dev into paintings on paper and canvas.
Read the full explanation →Jangarh Singh Shyam belonged to Patangarh village of which district of Madhya Pradesh?
- A.Jhabua
- B.Dindori
- C.Umaria
- D.Chhindwara
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Patangarh, the village of Jangarh Singh Shyam and of many Gond painters after him, lies in Dindori district in the eastern, forested part of the state, in the Gond country that also covers Mandla.
Read the full explanation →Pithora wall painting is made by which community of Madhya Pradesh?
- A.Gond and Pardhan
- B.Bhil and Bhilala
- C.Baiga and Bharia
- D.Sahariya and Kol
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Pithora is the ritual wall painting of the Bhil and Bhilala people of Jhabua, Alirajpur and Dhar in the west of the state.
Read the full explanation →Which institution at Bhopal, opened in 1982, holds the Roopankar gallery that first showed tribal painting as art?
- A.Bharat Bhavan
- B.Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya
- C.Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum
- D.Birla Museum
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Bharat Bhavan opened at Bhopal in 1982 in a building designed by the architect Charles Correa, and its art gallery Roopankar, shaped by the painter Jagdish Swaminathan, placed the work of village and tribal artists beside modern Indian painting.
Read the full explanation →Bhuri Bai, who received the Padma Shri in 2021, belongs to which tribe of Madhya Pradesh?
- A.Gond
- B.Bhil
- C.Baiga
- D.Korku
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Bhuri Bai of Pitol village in Jhabua district is a Bhil artist who began as a wage worker at the Bharat Bhavan site, was encouraged to paint on paper by Jagdish Swaminathan and became the first Bhil artist to carry Pithora forms on to paper and canvas.
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