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UNDER THEIR AGILE BRUSHSTROKES , VULGAR TRUCKS METAMORPHOSE INTO FLAMING TABLES AND FOR EACH ROAD A TRAVELING MUSEUM. BUT AS WE APPROACH THE WITHDRAWAL OF NATO, TRUCK ART'S VIRTUOSOS FEAR THAT THEIR CRAFT WILL VANISH...
The trucks of the "land of the pure" are not just vehicles but revered steel elephants, decorated with a makeupthousand bushes, pompons and mirrors, tattooed Arabian calligraphy and crowned with colorful naive portraits . This true poetry on wheels, which clashes with the exuberance of the grayish highways, born from artists too little unknown as Haider Ali.
Asked on his motif of the day, he replied "It depends on the requirement of the owner of the truck. Everyone wants his truck different from the other, "says Haider who left school as a teenager to follow in the footsteps of his father, Mohammad himself" truck's artist. " Picasso, Rembrandt, Kandinsky? As the majority of his "brothers brushes" Haider knows nothing of the masters of Western painting has never crossed a threshold of a contemporary art gallery or even attended the "art school." Yet his work has traveled to Canada, the United States and Europe, where the "Truck Art" has risen, for better and for worse, into a symbol of Pakistani culture abroad. But in Pakistan, . "The Pakistani elite do not consider what we do as art, but craft," says the artist. Merely, in economic point of view, "there is no comparable art form in Pakistan, we can not say that the art galleries or fashion design can compare to it .... and yet these artists remain marginalized, "says Jamal Elias, Specialist" Truck Art "at Penn State University, United States. These virtuosos, however are favored by transport companies who do not hesitate to pay 5,000 or $ 10,000 for decorating their trucks, a beauty treatment that can require up to 40 days of work for half a dozen artists.
These decorations show our pride, our love for our profession, and also that our trucks are in good condition and attractive, "says Mir Hussain, who is about to invest a small fortune to retype and decorate a truck in ruins, with a gutted floor." If n ' there is no design on the truck, people do not like, "says the old Mir. More truck captures the imagination with its beauty, the more it seems in good condition, and its owner expects to be able to 'lure customers, even if a large portion of contracts are awarded regardless of the "beauty" of the vehicle. Behind this somewhat twisted economic logic moves a secret love between man and machine. "Their women will die from hunger in the village, but still prefer conveyors invest their savings to decorate their trucks, "says Sajid Mahmood, a mechanic, before a heavyweight full makeover.
The trucks of the "land of the pure" are not just vehicles but revered steel elephants, decorated with a makeupthousand bushes, pompons and mirrors, tattooed Arabian calligraphy and crowned with colorful naive portraits . This true poetry on wheels, which clashes with the exuberance of the grayish highways, born from artists too little unknown as Haider Ali.
Asked on his motif of the day, he replied "It depends on the requirement of the owner of the truck. Everyone wants his truck different from the other, "says Haider who left school as a teenager to follow in the footsteps of his father, Mohammad himself" truck's artist. " Picasso, Rembrandt, Kandinsky? As the majority of his "brothers brushes" Haider knows nothing of the masters of Western painting has never crossed a threshold of a contemporary art gallery or even attended the "art school." Yet his work has traveled to Canada, the United States and Europe, where the "Truck Art" has risen, for better and for worse, into a symbol of Pakistani culture abroad. But in Pakistan, . "The Pakistani elite do not consider what we do as art, but craft," says the artist. Merely, in economic point of view, "there is no comparable art form in Pakistan, we can not say that the art galleries or fashion design can compare to it .... and yet these artists remain marginalized, "says Jamal Elias, Specialist" Truck Art "at Penn State University, United States. These virtuosos, however are favored by transport companies who do not hesitate to pay 5,000 or $ 10,000 for decorating their trucks, a beauty treatment that can require up to 40 days of work for half a dozen artists.
These decorations show our pride, our love for our profession, and also that our trucks are in good condition and attractive, "says Mir Hussain, who is about to invest a small fortune to retype and decorate a truck in ruins, with a gutted floor." If n ' there is no design on the truck, people do not like, "says the old Mir. More truck captures the imagination with its beauty, the more it seems in good condition, and its owner expects to be able to 'lure customers, even if a large portion of contracts are awarded regardless of the "beauty" of the vehicle. Behind this somewhat twisted economic logic moves a secret love between man and machine. "Their women will die from hunger in the village, but still prefer conveyors invest their savings to decorate their trucks, "says Sajid Mahmood, a mechanic, before a heavyweight full makeover.
