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Truck Art


Pakistan is famous for its truck art and this art has given a unique recognition worldwide. Trucks in Pakistan are decorated with paintings all over their bodies with local folks’ lore that gives them a Pakistani look instead of a vehicle that was manufactured overseas. Pakistan’s cultural identity includes truck art.
  1. Wings of Diesel: A Book Dedicated to Pakistani Truck Art
A whole book of 288 pages is dedicated to truck art by Jamal J. Elias. Elias himself is an expert in truck art. In this book, he has given a detail about the truck to his reader. In his book, he told truck is decorated in three parts front, sides and back side of the truck.
  1. Importing Pakistani Truck Art Overseas
The Pakistani truck art is not only limited to Pakistan many countries are so impressed by truck art that they have chosen it to import it to their home counties, all the way from Pakistan. They are admirer of Pakistani Truck Art.
  1. Truck Art isn’t cheap
Truck art today in Pakistan can cost as much as PKR 300,000~500,000! That is a huge amount to pay for the decoration of a truck from bumper to bumper. However, many truck drivers pay that money without argument as long as they get a beautiful looking appearance for their truck in exchange.
  1. Lifetime Truck Art
If you are thinking that once a Truck Art is done that is for life time. Right? No man, you are wrong. You have to renew it every five years if the driver wants to keep his truck beautiful. This is by no means an easy thing for a truck driver to do who has only a modest income to support him and his family. The savings he makes for himself are even less relative to the size of his total income.
  1. Truck Art different for every region
There is a variety in the way that artistic designs are painted over trucks in Pakistan. Although they may look familiar, but a closer look reveals the differences. Digging deeper into the roots, it can be ascertained that each province in Pakistan has its one unique style of painting trucks. This is because this is an art that is done nationwide in every province of the country and therefore each of the provinces has developed its own style and taste of executing it. The different variants of Pakistani truck art paintings depend on a number of factors. One is the area to which the truck driver belongs and the second is his caste. Both of these factors reflect in the art painted on the truck owned by any individual. For instance, if the truck is owned by an individual from Peshawar then he would like things local to Peshawar displayed on it such as the Khyber Pass, so on and so forth. Also, caste of the driver also has an impact in the sense that if a driver is Pathan then he would like celebrities such as Shahid Khan Afridi, A Q Khan, Ayub Khan or other Pashtun celebrities to be painted on his truck.
“Many artists, designers and fashion designers are inspired by truck art.” Influences of truck art are especially evident in the garments designed by Deepak Perwani and Manish Arora.
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