Artist Haider Ali talks about the vanishing art of jingle truck painting, and spending months of training drawing straight lines. Purple bug-eyed fish, peach-colored partridges and psychedelic ...

Pakistan is a country where culture and expressions of art are closely linked. Truck art is one such key example as it captivates the country's rich creative heritage, reflecting the nation's rich ...

Pakistan’s colorful truck art is one of its most famous cultural exports. Artists adorn ordinary trucks with flowers, patterns and birds in punchy greens, yellows, pinks and purples. These ...

Pakistan ‘Truck Art’ genre becomes vibrant folk ornate-identity of Pakistan globally. APP. January 11, 2021. ... drawing, sculpture, architecture, music and similar other forms.

After 1970’s, Truck art became popular around the globe, especially when American and European tourists came to Pakistan and took pictures of these highly decorated trucks. These pictures were ...

KARACHI: Over the last few decades, Pakistani truck art - hand-painted floral patterns, poetry and even caricatures of popular personalities on long-haul trucks, buses and rickshaws - has grown ...

But in Pakistan, they've long been known as canvases for very bright, colorful works of art. NPR's Hannah Bloch recently visited a truck workshop outside Islamabad and sent this postcard.

Pakistan's truck artists, who transform ugly lorries into flamboyant moving works of art, fear boom times for their trade could be at an end as NATO winds down its mission in Afghanistan. Elaborate ...

Truck art has become one of Pakistan’s most distinctive cultural exports in recent years, but it is still not highly regarded at home. “The higher echelons of society don’t call it art but craft—or ...