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The Patna Kalam school of painting developed as an offshoot of

  1. A.Pahari painting
  2. B.Mughal miniature painting
  3. C.The Kishangarh style of Rajasthan
  4. D.Tanjore painting

Correct answer

B. Mughal miniature painting

Explanation

The correct answer is B, Mughal miniature painting. The Patna Kalam was made by families of painters trained in the Mughal manner who left Delhi and Murshidabad in the eighteenth century and settled at Patna. Working for British officers and merchants they gave up court portraiture and painted the everyday world instead, artisans at their trades, servants, fairs and processions, on paper and on small sheets of mica, which is why the school is counted among the Company styles.

Option A, Pahari painting, belongs to the hill states of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu, with Kangra and Basohli as its centres. Option C, the Kishangarh style, is a Rajasthani school famous for the Bani Thani portrait. Option D, Tanjore painting, is the gold foil and gem work of Tamil Nadu. All are miniature traditions, but only the Mughal line runs to Patna, and the clue is the migration of court painters after the decline of the empire.

Read the full article: Madhubani, Manjusha and Other Art Forms of Bihar: Styles and Facts

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Q1.BiharEasy

Madhubani painting belongs to which region of Bihar?

  1. A.Anga, around Bhagalpur
  2. B.Mithila, in the north
  3. C.Magadh, around Gaya
  4. D.Bhojpur, in the west
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Correct answer: B. Mithila, in the north

Madhubani painting is also called Mithila painting because it grew in the Mithila region of northern Bihar, chiefly in the districts of Madhubani and Darbhanga, and the form takes its common name from the first of these districts.

Q2.BiharMedium

Manjusha art, which narrates the legend of Bihula and Bishahari, belongs to which district of Bihar?

  1. A.Madhubani
  2. B.Bhagalpur
  3. C.Gaya
  4. D.Patna
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Correct answer: B. Bhagalpur

Manjusha art belongs to Bhagalpur and the Angika-speaking country around it. The paintings are made on the manjusha, a temple-shaped box built of bamboo strips and jute paper, which is carried in procession during the Bihula-Bishahari festival of the rainy season, and the panels tell the story of Bihula and…

Q4.BiharMedium

In Mithila tradition, the kohbar ghar on whose wall the painting is made is

  1. A.the nuptial chamber of a newly married couple
  2. B.the kitchen of the house
  3. C.the cattle shed
  4. D.the village shrine
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Correct answer: A. the nuptial chamber of a newly married couple

The kohbar ghar is the room in which the bride and bridegroom are brought together after the wedding, and its wall carries the kohbar painting, a composition of the lotus with its ring of leaves, the bamboo grove, fish, parrots and the sun and moon, all of them symbols of…

Q5.BiharHard

Tikuli art of Patna originally decorated which object?

  1. A.Earthen pottery
  2. B.The bindi worn on the forehead
  3. C.Temple doors
  4. D.Palm leaf manuscripts
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Correct answer: B. The bindi worn on the forehead

Tikuli takes its name from the tikuli or tikli, the decorated dot worn by women on the forehead, which was once made at Patna out of thin glass fused with gold foil and coloured enamel.