Kerala PSC Junior Lecturer in History of Arts and Aesthetics Previous Question Paper

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1. Explain the Prehistoric Art in Europe, emphasising on their cave art, sculptures and potteries. Give suitable examples to support your answer. (5)

2. State the difference between ancient Mesopotamia art and art of China, in terms of their area, culture, art and architecture, sculpture techniques, tools and examples and Painting- techniques, tools and examples. (5)

3. What were the developments in the styles of painting in the Renaissance period? (4)

4. Mention some of the Post Impressionist artist with their famous works. (4)

5. Describe the evolution of sculptures in the Ancient Greek art. (5)

6. Why the Medieval periods are called as the Dark Ages and mention some of the characteristics of middle ages art? (5)

7. Why the Baroque art is dramatic and the Rococo is decorative? Outline the characteristics of Baroque and Rococo period Art. (6)

8. Define Post Modernism. Discuss the salient features of Post Modern Art. Do you agree the Post Modernist approach is capitalistic and commercial? (6)

9. Explain the Saranath Seated Buddha as the epitome of the classical in Indian Sculpture. (4)

10. Using the relief sculpture of Nataraja from Elephanta and Ellora (Cave 16) explain what is understood as post- Gupta dynamism in sculptures. (4)

11. European artists visiting India Painted the old towns differently from the new British settlements. Explain this colonial perspective in pictorial terms. (4)

12. Company painting evolved out of the late stages of miniature painting in India, but is also the initial signs of a negotiation with the transforming conditions of the modern. Explain. (4)

13. The toranas from the Mahastupa at Sanchi contain Buddhist narratives from the Satavahana period. Explain narration as evidenced from these sculptural reliefs. (6)

14. With reference to Mughal and Pahari miniature paintings, describe how realism was not understood as illusion in the Indian pictorial context. (6)

15. Raja Ravi Varma stands out as the first individual professional artist of Modern India. Explain the significance of his unique status within art history. (6)

16. The Artists' collectives of the 1940s looked towards internationalism as a marked difference from the articulation of the national in the previous decades. Taking Kolkata or Mumbai as examples, discuss this shift in perception and perspective. (6)

17. Who is a propounder of shadanga and how does the concept emerge. (4)

18. Explain the concept of intuition and its cosmic totality by gore. (4)

19. Explain the Principle of Kshay Vriddhi as part of creating three dimensionality in pictorial space (6)

20. Discuss briefly the idea of correlation between the content and its modes of production in art works as advocated by Devida. (6)