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Nov 28, 2014

* USA / Pakistan - Art on wheels:

* Michigan - Celebrating the creativity of Pakistani trucks

(Photos Courtesy: Osman Khan - The Pakistani-style truck explores the country) 
Ann Arbor,MICH,USA -Global Michigan, by Mandira Banerjee -November 24, 2014: -- At a time when much of the news about Pakistan seems to involve drone attacks, bombings and jihadist groups, a University of Michigan professor is trying to change the conversation to the vibrant art and culture scene that exists in the country... Osman Khan is doing it by decorating a truck—Pakistani style. The vehicle is covered with a collage of floral patterns and pictures of Pakistani leaders, poets and activists such as Malala Yousafzai, the recent Nobel Peace Prize winner...
The back of Khan’s vehicle is ornately decorated with buraq, a creature with wings which according to legend travelled with prophets to heaven. The front of the truck will soon be decorated with calligraphy, ornamental shapes and patterns in shiny metallic and colored foil...
Truck art is found in regions of South America and South Asia, but few are as elaborate as the moving canvasses that rumble down the roads of Pakistan, hauling bags of sugar, lumber and other cargo... Khan wants to make a decorated truck part of the visual landscape as it crisscrosses through all the states...

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Jan 16, 2009

Amazing Artwork * USA - What You're Seeing on These Trucks Is

USA -blonde sherry -13 January 2009: -- Thanks to Jane Hartwig for sharing these photos of some excellent artwork on trucks!... Doesn't this stuff look real?...












Which is your favorite?...

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Jul 3, 2007

Art on wheels * Pakistan - South Asia trucks serve as canvas as well as carrier

Just off the Grand Trunk Road, in an old auto yard filled with rusting axles and rotting trees, Arshad Mehmood is completing his latest masterpiece

Taxila,Pakistan -The Washington Post (Washington,DC,USA), by Griff Witte -1 July 2007: -- ... The canvas is propped up on oversize tires. The medium is oil on metal. The palette is bright enough to make an impression even at 70 miles per hour, the speed at which Mehmood's latest will be traveling when it joins his other masterpieces whooshing down the highway... Naseer says that the more beautiful the truck, the more business he will get because it will stand out from the rest... (Photo by Griff Witte/The Washington Post - Third-generation truck artist Arshad Mehmood paints elaborate designs on customer Raja Naseer's vehicle)

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