Padmashree Bhuri Bai famous for

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Correct — A, Painting. Bhuri Bai is a celebrated Bhil tribal artist of Madhya Pradesh, honoured with the Padma Shri in 2021 for her folk painting. She is widely regarded as the first Bhil artist to move the community's traditional wall art onto paper and canvas (using acrylic and poster colours), and her dot-filled paintings of nature, animals and Bhil deities are held in Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal. So the field of art she is famous for is painting.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Bhuri Bai is not a musician; her fame rests entirely on visual art (Bhil painting), not on any musical form.  (c) She is not known as a dancer; the Padma Shri to her recognised her painting, not the performing arts.  (d) She is not a writer or poet; her contribution is to the pictorial folk-art tradition of the Bhils.

Concept: Bhil painting is a tribal folk-art tradition of the Bhil people of Madhya Pradesh (and adjoining western India). Its signature feature is the filling of figures with rows of multi-coloured dots; the subjects are drawn from nature, village life, festivals and tribal deities (as in the ritual Pithora wall paintings). Bhuri Bai is the best-known contemporary exponent of this style.

State PCS 2020 Q31 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2020 Q31 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer