Framed Folk Art

Painting of a truck, rickshaw or bus may have many goals. Some do it to attract customers, while others are to follow the Khans

A driver of Murree, which earns up to Rs 15, 000 per month, has spent Rs 30,000 to get his truck repainted. Two years ago, he and his brother spent about Rs 200,000 to the body have been strains in the back, which includes wooden doors, steel-covered wooden walls around the truck bed and chains around edges. He sees this as a normal cost of business.

The pilots believe that these costs are worth it. They say that no self-respecting merchant would trust his property in the bed of a shabby looking truck. Customers reason that if a driver can not afford to be believed, perhaps its not a very good driver. One driver said that the police also look more seriously at a poorly decorated truck. "If I could not do color," he said, "I would be arrested by the police." He said if the truck is not in good condition, the police will not like his truck.

But for a truck-retail store in Rawalpindi, its the makings of a very good deal. It employs twenty two craftsmen. He says some decoration serves a purpose beyond pure aesthetics. For example, he reports that the massive structure projecting above the cabin, can slow the truck at high speed. It can also hide the surplus assets from prying eyes of the police.

Truck Art has become an important branch of art popular in Pakistan. The trucks are decorated, painted and repaired in various workshops throughout the country. A collection of workshops where Pakistani trucks are built, repaired and decorated, is located at busy road between the bus station in Rawalpindi and Grand Truck Road, which connects Pindi Peshawar via Lahore.

In this workshop, facing the machine mechanics, welders and carpenters, auto body repair, commonly known bodymakers "The construction of the wooden body of the truck finally painted and decorated with pictures, small mirrors, accessories decorative, sparkling sound reflectors and channels. These old trucks are repaired again and again. Drivers and transport agencies have put all their pride in the decoration of their trucks and lorries.

There are two types of paint on these trucks: paintings "mere" which still leaves some space between images and the second is painting disco "in which every inch is covered with pictures and ornaments. On the exhibition of portraits of national heroes, imaginary landscapes with wood covered hills and tranquil lakes and beautiful women. The cabin sides are often covered with a sort of mosaic of landforms metal interspersed with small painted ornaments, and sometimes the doors are made of finely carved wood. sides of the trucks are exhibition spaces for larger paintings.

The wooden side panels are divided into small segments by iron braces to frame a number of different images. These images offer a landscape, the faces of women, birds, tigers and flowers.On the back of the truck, he is a big reason: a portrait, a mythical figure, a building, and an animal. These are planks of wood painted onseparate that are removed during the loading or unloading the truck. Only when the plates are inserted in the correct order, the images do not appear legitimate.

A simple painting is ready in two days while the painting takes more time disco. The painters of them are masters of their art and do not need models for painting. They are given a free hand in what they do, and the paintings are generally accepted by the owners. Nobody raised any objection to painting beautiful roses and birds or a portrait of cricket star Imran Khan.

Not only new trucks are painted, but many trucks that have lost their luster is painted again too. In addition, the lorry was also painted there is a change of hands and e.