How can expression of collective experience appear in folk art?

In depiction of community tradition, festivals, and struggles

The governing concept is collective expression in folk art. Folk traditions often grow within a community and preserve shared memories, beliefs, ceremonies, work, environment, celebrations, and struggles. When these subjects appear through familiar motifs, colours, stories, or repeated patterns, the artwork communicates an experience held by many people rather than only a private feeling of one maker. Therefore, option A is correct because it identifies community tradition, festivals, and struggles as forms of collective experience. Option B reduces expression to a personal mark, while option C confuses cultural meaning with the cost of materials. Option D contradicts the emotional and social character of folk art. Materials may be simple; their meaning comes from shared cultural use.

This is a Class 9 Art Education question. Chapter: Indian Art and Culture. Topic: Folk art.