Maharashtra SSC Drawing and Painting Divyang case studies
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The Maharashtra SSC Drawing and Painting examination in the Divyang (disability) category is a secondary-school-level art credential offered through the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education. It exists so that candidates with disabilities can have their practical artistic ability assessed on its own terms, rather than being judged mainly on written theory or on speed-based tasks. The Maharashtra SSC Drawing and Painting Divyang case studies are 5 cases and about 4,944 words.
1The Lota, the Jar and the Folded Cloth
A candidate with low vision (60 per cent disability, 40 minutes extra time and a permitted desk lamp) is drawing a still-life group in coloured pencil on half-imperial cartridge: a brass lota standing on a low stool, a half-filled glass jar, a wooden block and a blue cotton cloth folded into three ridges. The light comes from a single window on the left; the permitted lamp is clamped to the left edge of the board so that it does not contradict the window.
986 words, about 5 min2The Village Tank at Four O'Clock
A candidate who uses a wheelchair is placed, with permission, at a fixed raised viewpoint for the nature and landscape paper: 2 hours 45 minutes on a quarter-imperial sheet in watercolour. The subject is a village tank at about four in the afternoon: bare mud foreground, the near bank, two palms and a small temple spire on the far bank, three buffalo standing in shallow water, and a sky of scattered cloud.
1,016 words, about 5 min3Rain at the Bus Stop, Drawn from Memory
Five minutes before the memory drawing paper begins, the candidate - who has a hearing impairment and reads the topic from a printed slip rather than listening - is given: 'A rainy day at a bus stop.' The paper is two hours on a half-imperial sheet in dry pastel. From memory the candidate sets out three people sheltering under the bus-stop roof, a boy running with a newspaper over his head, a bus approaching from the left, and puddles on the road.
997 words, about 5 min4The Seated Model and the Foreshortened Arm
A candidate with spasticity affecting the right hand draws with the left on A2 paper instead of A3, with 30 minutes extra time, in charcoal. The model is a boy seated on a low stool, leaning forward, his left forearm resting on his knee and pointing towards the viewer, head turned to his right.
992 words, about 5 min5The Festival Card in Red and Green
A candidate with mild red-green deficiency (deuteranomaly), 20 minutes extra time and permission to use a grey-scale reference card, is making a greeting-card design in gouache: 15 by 21 cm, two colours plus white, on the theme of a festival lamp. The candidate chooses a saturated crimson motif - a hanging lamp with a border - on a saturated emerald ground, with a yellow flame.
953 words, about 5 min