PROSE : NANDALAL BOSE [1882-1966]
The Place of Art in Education
Short Answer-type Questions : 1 Mark
SAQ : 1 Mark
1️⃣ Who is the writer of the essay, “The Place of Art in Education”?
👉Nandalal Bose, a famous Indian artist, is the writer of the essay, “The Place of Art in Education”.
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1️⃣ Who is the author of the essay, “The Place of Art in Education”?
2️⃣ Who wrote the essay, “The Place of Art in Education”?
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2️⃣ What is the source of the excerpt ‘The Place of Art in Education’?*
👉The source of the excerpt ‘The Place of Art in Education’ is the English translation of Nandalal Bose’s notable work ‘Drishti ar Shrishti’ in English ‘Vision and Creation’.
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Where from has the essay, “The Place of Art in Education” been taken?
👉The essay, “The Place of Art in Education” has been taken from the English translation of Nandalal Bose’s notable work ‘Drishti ar Shrishti’ in English ‘Vision and Creation’.
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3️⃣ What is the utility of language?*
[WBCHSE Class-XI Annual Examination 2018, 2017]
👉The utility of language is that it helps man to acquire knowledge, or seek inner delight.
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Why is language important?
👉Language is important because it helps man to acquire knowledge, or seek inner delight.
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4️⃣ What is the language vehicle for?
👉Language is the vehicle for literature, science, and philosophy.
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1️⃣ Whose vehicle is language?
2️⃣ For which subjects does language play the role of vehicle according to Nandalal Bose in his essay, “The Place of Art in Education”?
👉According to Nandalal Bose in his essay, “The Place of Art in Education”, language plays the role of vehicle for literature, science, and philosophy.
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5️⃣ What does literature provide man?
👉Literature certainly provides man inner delight, but its field of expression is limited.
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What role does literature play in the life of men?
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6️⃣ What things make up the limitation of literature’s field of expression?
👉Art, music, dance and the like make up the limitation of literature’s field of expression.
7️⃣ How does man apprehend the world?
👉Man apprehends the world with his mind and senses, derives aesthetic delight and communicates this to others.
8️⃣ What utility does education in arts have?
👉Education in arts heightens man’s knowledge and aesthetic experience and trains him in various modes of expression.
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How does education in art help man?
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9️⃣ In what way does education in arts train a man?
👉Education in arts trains a man in various modes of expression.
1️⃣0️⃣ What, according to Nandalal Bose, is the object of education?*
[WBCHSE Class-XI Annual Examination 2019]
👉According to Nandalal Bose, the object of education is total development.
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1️⃣ What is the purpose of education?
2️⃣ What should be the object of education?
👉The object of education should be total development.
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1️⃣1️⃣ Which status should art training have and why?
👉If the objective of education is total development, art training should have the same status and importance as reading and writing.
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What, according to Nandalal Bose, should have the status of art training?
👉According to Nandalal Bose, art training should have the same status and importance as reading and writing.
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1️⃣2️⃣ How is the provision made by our universities for art training?
👉The provision made by our universities for art training is sorely inadequate at present.
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1️⃣ What provision do our universities make for art training?
👉The provision that our universities make for art training is sorely inadequate at present.
2️⃣ What provision do the universities have for art-training ?
👉The universities of our country do not have adequate provision for art-training.
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1️⃣3️⃣ What is the general notion about art in our country?
👉The general notion about art in our country is that art is the exclusive preserve of a few professionals and common people have nothing to do it.
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1️⃣ What is the general notion about art education?
2️⃣ What is the general noting among some people regarding art ?
👉Some people think that art is the exclusive preserve of a few professionals and common people have nothing to do it.
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1️⃣4️⃣ Who cannot differentiate between a painting and a photograph?*
[WBCHSE Class-XI Annual Examination 2020, 2017]
👉The educated cannot differentiate between a painting and a photograph.
1️⃣5️⃣ Why can the educated people not make out the difference between a painting and a photograph? What is the general notion about art?
👉The educated people cannot make out the difference between a painting and a photograph because they do not understand art.
The general notion about art is that art is the exclusive preserve of a few professionals and common people have nothing to do it.
1️⃣6️⃣ Who are fond of Garish German wrappers and why?
👉The educated people are fond of Garish German wrappers because they cannot make out the difference between a painting and a photograph.
1️⃣7️⃣ Why do the educated people gape in amazement at Japanese dolls?
👉The educated people gape in amazement at Japanese dolls as if they are great specimen of art. They cannot make out the difference between a painting and a photograph, and Garish German wrappers in red, blue and purple do not strain their eyes but give them pleasure.
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Why are the educated surprised to see Japanese dolls?
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1️⃣8️⃣ On grounds of utility, what do the educated mass use in place of ‘(elegant) earthen pitchers’?*
[WBCHSE Class-XI Annual Examination 2018, 2015]
👉On grounds of utility, the educated mass use tin containers in place of ‘(elegant) earthen pitchers’.
1️⃣9️⃣ Who are responsible for the commoners being indifferent to the work of art?
👉The educated public of this country and its universities are mainly responsible for the commoners being indifferent to the work of art.
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1️⃣ Who are mainly responsible for the lack of taste in art?
👉The educated public of this country and its universities are mainly responsible for the lack of taste in art.
2️⃣ Who are responsible for the lack of sense of beauty among the people ?
The educated public of this country and its universities are mainly responsible for the lack of sense of beauty among the people.
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2️⃣0️⃣ What, according to Nandalal Bose, does our educational scene reveal?*
👉According to Nandalal Bose, our educational scene reveals that while this country’s cultural life has fanned out, its aesthetic sensibilities have grown distressingly worse.
2️⃣1️⃣ What is the only redress for recovering aesthetic sensibilities which have grown distressingly worse in our country’s cultural life?
👉The only redress for this lies in spreading art education amongst the so-called educated public, as they set the standards for the people at large.
2️⃣2️⃣ Why is it necessary to spread art education amongst the so-called educated public?
👉To spread art education amongst the so-called educated public is necessary because they set the standards for the people at large.
2️⃣3️⃣ How does the absence of a sense of beauty harm a man?*
[WBCHSE Class-XI Annual Examination 2014]
👉The absence of a sense of beauty not only cheats a man of aesthetic experience, but it also harms his physical and mental well-being.
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1️⃣ How does the absence of a sense of beauty tell upon or affect our life ?
2️⃣ How do men who lack of sense of beauty contaminate society?
👉Those who lack of sense of beauty litter rubbish in their houses and courtyards, keep themselves and their surroundings filthy, spit betel-juice on their walls, streets and even railway coaches, harm their own health and that of others. Thus they contaminate society with diseases on one hand and their despicable standards of behaviour on other.
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2️⃣4️⃣ What, according to Nandalal Bose, is a sure indication of our poverty in aesthetic sensibilities?*
👉According to Nandalal Bose, the widespread disproportion and lack of taste is a sure indication of our poverty in aesthetic sensibilities.
2️⃣5️⃣ Who think that art is the domain for the rich and the pleasure-loving and what do they want to art?
👉There are some amongst us who think that art is the domain for the rich and the pleasure-loving and they want to banish it with contempt from their daily lives.
2️⃣6️⃣ Why do some people banish art from their daily lives?
👉Some people banish art from their daily lives thinking that art is the domain for the rich and pleasure-loving, and so they want to banish it with contempt from their daily lives.
2️⃣7️⃣ How is the sense of beauty for the rich man’s son?*
👉The sense of beauty for the rich man’s son is superficial, so, lifeless.
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Why is the sense of beauty lifeless to the rich man’s son?
👉The sense of beauty to the rich man’s son is superficial, and for that it is lifeless.
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2️⃣8️⃣ Where does the vitality of a work of art lie?
👉The vitality of a work of art lies in its sense of beauty and order, not in its money value.
2️⃣9️⃣ What is the author’s view about the sense of beauty in the Santhal community?*
👉For the poor Santhal the sense of beauty is an essential part of his life, and, so, vital.
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How is the sense of beauty for the poor Santhal?
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3️⃣0️⃣ How do the Santhal people maintain aesthetic beauty even in their poor surroundings?
👉A poor Santhal sweeps and mops his hut, stacks in order his earthen pots and tattered quilts. Thus the Santhal people maintain aesthetic beauty even in their poor surroundings.
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1️⃣ How does a poor Santhal show his sense of beauty?
2️⃣ How does the author compare the sense of beauty in a poor Santhal and a college student? Give one example.
👉A poor Santhal sweeps and mops his hut, stacks in order his earthen pots and tattered quilts; an educated college student keeps his clothes and things in disorganised mess in his seemingly palatial hostel room or lodging.
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3️⃣1️⃣ How does an educated college student show his lack of sense of beauty?
👉An educated college student keeps his clothes and things in disorganised mess in his seemingly palatial hostel room or lodging.
3️⃣2️⃣ How do educated men advertise their devotion to art?*
[WBCHSE Class-XI Annual Examination 2016]
👉Educated men advertise their devotion to art by showing framed pins-up side by side with good paintings.
3️⃣3️⃣ What does the author see in the hostel rooms?
👉The author sees in the hostel rooms shirts hanging from picture frames, tea-cups and combs littering the study table, paper flowers stuck into used cocoa tins.
3️⃣4️⃣ In what sort of dress does Nandalal Bose observe lack of taste?
👉Nandalal Bose observes lack of taste when people wear open-breasted jacket with the ‘dhoti’ or high-heeled shoes with the saree.
3️⃣5️⃣ What are the two aspects to the practice of literature?*
👉The two aspects to the practice of literature are one concerned with the cultivation of knowledge and aesthetic pleasure and another with professional returns.
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“There are two aspects to the practice of literature” What are the two aspects to the practice of literature?
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3️⃣6️⃣ What are the two aspects of art education?*
[WBCHSE Class-XI Annual Examination 2016, 2023]
👉The two aspects of art education are one fine art and the other functional art.
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1️⃣ Name two forms of art mentioned in the text.
2️⃣ What are the two kinds of art as mentioned in “The place of Art in Education”?
👉The two kinds of art as mentioned in “The Place of Art in Education” are fine art and functional art.
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3️⃣7️⃣ What does fine art do?
👉Fine art liberates our mind from the constraints of sorrows and conflicts of our daily lives into a world of aesthetic delight.
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1️⃣ How does fine art help us?
2️⃣ How does fine art help in gaining aesthetic delight?.
3️⃣ What is the function of fine art?
👉The function of fine art is to liberate our mind from the constraints of sorrows and conflicts of our daily lives into a world of aesthetic delight.
4️⃣ What part does fine art play in our life?
👉Fine art liberates our mind from the constraints of sorrows and conflicts of our daily lives into a world of aesthetic delight.
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3️⃣8️⃣ What does functional art do?*
👉Functional art with its touch of magic brings beauty to the objects of our daily use, and to our lives, and provides us with means of livelihood.
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1️⃣ How does functional art help us?
2️⃣ What kind of art brings beauty to the objects of our daily use, and to our lives, and provides us with means of livelihood?
👉Functional art brings beauty to the objects of our daily use, and to our lives, and provides us with means of livelihood.
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What role does functional art play in our daily life?
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3️⃣9️⃣ What, according to Nandalal Bose, has our country’s economic decline followed closely?*
[WBCHSE Class-XI Annual Examination 2018, 2015]
👉According to Nandalal Bose, our country’s economic decline has followed closely the decay of its functional arts.
4️⃣0️⃣ What is harmful to the economic well-being of the country?
👉To exclude art from the sphere of our needs is harmful to the economic well-being of the country.
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What hampers the economic growth of our country?
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4️⃣1️⃣ What is the effect of the lack of art education on us?
👉The lack of art education has not only deprived the present course of our lives of beauty, it has also estranged us from our past heritage.
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1️⃣ What has ‘lack of art education’ done to us?*
[WBCHSE Class-XI Annual Examination 2023]
2️⃣ What separates us from our past heritage?
👉The lack of art education keeps us separated from our past heritage.
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4️⃣2️⃣ What role have foreign connoisseurs had in our life?
👉Foreign connoisseurs have had to come in our country and expound the importance of our glorious past painting, sculpture and architecture to us. Because our eyes are untrained, we have remained ignorant and insensitive to our past glories.
4️⃣3️⃣ Why are we depended on foreign connoisseurs, according to Nandalal Bose?
👉According to Nandalal Bose, we are depended on foreign connoisseurs because they have had to come in our country and expound the importance of our glorious past painting, sculpture and architecture to us. Because our eyes are untrained, we have remained ignorant and insensitive to our past glories.
4️⃣4️⃣ Why does the author hold art responsible for the economic well-being of our country?
👉The author holds art responsible for the economic well-being of our country because our country’s well-being is closely depended on its functional arts.
4️⃣5️⃣ How has the lack of art education estranged us from our past heritage?
👉As our eyes are untrained due to lack of art education, we have remained ignorant and insensitive to the glory of our past painting, sculpture and architecture.
4️⃣6️⃣ What regarding art, according to Nandalal Bose, is shameful for us?
👉According to Nandalal Bose, it is shameful for us that even our present day art does not get any recognition in our country until it gets approval in foreign markets.
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What is our shame in present-day art?
👉According to Nandalal Bose, it is our shame that even our present day art does not get any recognition in our country until it gets approval in foreign markets.
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4️⃣7️⃣ How many suggestions are given by the writer to develop art education in our country?
👉The writer gives seven suggestions to develop art education in our country.
4️⃣8️⃣ What should be displayed in the class-rooms and the libraries?
👉Good paintings, sculpture and other specimens of fine and functional arts (or in their absence good reproductions or photographs of these) should be displayed in the class-rooms, libraries, studies and living rooms of the students.
4️⃣9️⃣ How should books on art be written?
👉Readable books on art should be written by well-qualified people with good reproductions and historical texts in ample measure.
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Who, according to Nandalal Bose, should write books on art?
👉According to Nandalal Bose, well-qualified people should write books on art.
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5️⃣0️⃣ Who should accompany students in museums and picture galleries?*
[WBCHSE Class-XI Annual Examination 2020]
👉Qualified teachers should accompany students in museums and picture galleries.
5️⃣1️⃣ Why should students accompany qualified teachers to museums and picture galleries?*
👉Students should accompany qualified teachers to museums and picture galleries to see distinguished examples of the art of the past because they will help the students fully to arouse their aesthetic vision by directly encountering them with an art of object.
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Why should students visit with their teachers to museums and picture galleries?
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5️⃣2️⃣ How can students arouse their aesthetic vision?
👉Students can arouse their aesthetic vision through a direct encounter with an art object.
5️⃣3️⃣ “To our shame, even our present-day art….” What is our shame?
👉It is our shame that even our present day art does not get any recognition in our country until it finds approval in foreign markets.
5️⃣4️⃣ Where do the roots of art education lie?*
[WBCHSE Class-XI Annual Examination 2014]
👉The roots of art education lie in the observation of nature and good works of art with dedicated attention, living in close contact with them and understanding them with the assistance of men with developed aesthetic sensibilities.
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What is the root of art education?
👉The root of art education is the close observation of nature as nature is the greatest source of all artistic creations.
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5️⃣5️⃣ How does the observation of good works of art help the students?
👉The observation of good works of art develops their aesthetic sensibilities.
5️⃣6️⃣ What does the author suggest to each school and university for art education?
👉The author suggests that each school and university should provide a place for art studies with other studies, making it compulsory. It should provide the students with time and the environment to get acquainted with nature.
5️⃣7️⃣ What will be developed through training in drawing?
👉Training in drawing will develop the power of observation and this, in turn, will give one better insight into literature, philosophy and science.
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How does training in drawing help the students?
👉 Training in drawing will develop their power of observation and this, in turn, will give them better insight into literature, philosophy and science.
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5️⃣8️⃣ Why has Nandalal Bose opined that art education will not make all students artists?
👉Nandalal Bose has opined that art education will not make all students artists like no one can become a poet by just passing a course of poetry an institution might offer.
5️⃣9️⃣ Where should good paintings, sculpture and other specimens of fine and functional art be displayed?
👉Good paintings, sculpture and other specimens of fine and functional art (or in their absence, good reproductions or photographs of these) should be displayed in the class-rooms, libraries, studies and living rooms of the students.
6️⃣0️⃣ How can a student be got into an encounter with nature?
👉We should hold seasonal festivals including displaying seasonal fruits and flowers to get a student into an encounter with nature.
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1️⃣ How can a student be brought to close contact with nature?
2️⃣ Why should seasonal festivals be held?*
[WBCHSE Class-XI Annual Examination 2023]
👉Seasonal festivals should be held to get students into an encounter with Nature.
3️⃣ Why are seasonal festivals essential for the students of art?
👉Seasonal festivals are essential for the students of art to get them into an encounter with Nature.
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6️⃣1️⃣ What is essential for the town-dweller?
👉It is essential for the town dweller to see with their own eyes and enjoy the rice fields and lotus ponds in autumn, the carnival of palash and shimul flowers in spring.
6️⃣2️⃣ What does Nandalal Bose demand in regard of art training?*
👉In regard of art training Nandalal Bose demands the students to get acquainted with Nature. And for this they should be introduced to Nature’s own festival of seasons.
6️⃣3️⃣ Why did Nandalal Bose stress on students being introduced to Nature?*
[WBCHSE Class-XI Sample Question]
👉Nandalal Bose stressed on students being introduced to Nature because once the students get acquainted with Nature, and learn to love it, their aesthetic sensibilities will never run dry for, through ages, it is Nature that has provided the source material for all artistic creation.
6️⃣4️⃣ Who has provided the source material for all artistic creation?
👉Nature has provided the source material for all artistic creation.
6️⃣5️⃣ How should a student participate in the art festival of the school?
👉A student should participate in the art festival of the school devotedly with something he had made with his own hand, however simple.
6️⃣6️⃣ What kind of art provides us with a livelihood?*
👉Functional art provides us with a livelihood.
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Which art provides us livelihood?
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6️⃣7️⃣ Why is ‘encounter with Nature’ essential for students?
👉 ‘Encounter with Nature’ is essential for students to familiarize them with the beautiful creations in art.
6️⃣8️⃣ What is the reason for the inadequacy of provision in universities for art education?
👉The reason for the inadequacy of provision in universities for art education is due to the general notion that art is the exclusive preserve of a few professionals and common people have nothing to do it.
6️⃣9️⃣ Why are the educated not ashamed when they fail to understand art?
👉When the educated fail to understand art, they are not ashamed because they are in lack of art education.
7️⃣0️⃣ How can the art festival in a school be given a total shape?
👉An art festival in a school can be given a total shape and beauty with music, dances and processions.
7️⃣1️⃣ How will the time of ‘Art Festival’ in a school be decided?*
[WBCHSE Class-XI Annual Examination 2019]
👉The time of ‘Art Festival’ in a school will be decided according to the location.
