TISS GK
TISS GK Preparation Series: GK is a very important section for TISS especially since the verbal and the quant sections are relatively easy. Hence, getting a good score in GK can easily be the difference between getting a TISS call and not getting one. To help you ace this section, we are starting a series of articles devoted to topics commonly asked in the TISS GK section. We hope that this will help you in your preparation. Every article will also be available in PDF format. Here is our #3 article in this series: Famous Painters and their Paintings
This is an important section for TISS GK. There have been questions asked previously on the paintings of Van Gogh, Raja Ravi Verma, Amrita Shergill, etc. The first table below gives details of world famous painters and their paintings whereas the second table gives details of famous Indian painters and their corresponding paintings.
| Sr. No. | Painter | Paintings |
| 1 | Leonardo Da Vinci | Mona Lisa, Last Supper |
| 2 | Vincent Van Gogh | Sunflowers, The Starry Night |
| 3 | Rembrandt | Night Watch, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee |
| 4 | Michelangelo | Sistine Chapel ceiling, David (sculpture), Pieta (sculpture), The Creation of Adam |
| 5 | Claude Monet | Water lilies, Impression Sunrise, Poppies |
| 6 | Pablo Picasso | Guernica, The Old Guitarist, The Weeping Woman |
| 7 | Raphael | The School of Athens, The Sistine Madonna |
| 8 | August Renoir | Luncheon of the Boating Party, The Umbrellas |
| 9 | Jan Vermeer | Girl with a Pearl Earring, Milkmaid |
| 10 | Paul Cezanne | The Card Players, The Bathers |
| 11 | Sandro Boticelli | The Birth of Venus, Primavera |
| 12 | Edvard Munch | Madonna, The Scream |
| 13 | Salvador Dali | The Persistence of Memory, The Elephants |
| Sr. No. | Painter | Paintings |
| 1 | Abanindranath Tagore | Bharat Mata, Ganesh Janani |
| 2 | Amrita Shergill | Village Scene, Siesta, In the Ladies’ Enclosure |
| 3 | F.N.Souza | Birth |
| 4 | Jamini Roy | Queen on Tiger, Ramayana |
| 5 | Jatin Das | Flight of Steel, Working Woman II |
| 6 | M.F.Hussain | Gaja Gamini, Mother India, Between the Spider and the Lamp |
| 7 | Nandlal Bose | Darjeeling and Fog, Gandhi March |
| 8 | Raja Ravi Verma | Goddess Saraswati. Maharashtrian Lady, Damayanti |
| 9 | Satish Gujral | Raising of Lazarus, Days of Glory |
| 10 | S.H.Raza | Bindu |
| 11 | Tyeb Mehta | Celebration, Diagonal series, Kali, Gesture |
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