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Desi Pop Art - You see, you click, you post!

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Indian Pop Art today has evolved to find its own foothold in the global scene. I personally love the inheritant richness that desi pop art derives from Indian art. Maybe thats why it has so many takers! From rickshaw rears to truck signs to signboards to anything thats just desi and pop, theres no dearth of awesomeness on the streets of India! So go ahead and put up anything you find on the way! :arrow:
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Someone is waiting. This is one theme that you will see again and again, in various forms on the backs of trucks or rickshaws. Probably due to the loneliness that is the one constant companion of truckers and rick drivers.
Someone is waiting. This is one theme that you will see again and again, in various forms on the backs of trucks or rickshaws. Probably due to the loneliness that is the one constant companion of truckers and rick drivers.
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A bullock-cart with its proud owner! Clicked during a trip to Karnataka.
A bullock-cart with its proud owner! Clicked during a trip to Karnataka.
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Gods and deities are a recurrent theme in desi pop art all over. Its amazing how each picture is rich enough to convey the entire odyssey of a deity! This is pop art paying it forward by passing the culture and the mythologies on. To my mind, communication at its desi & creative best :D!
Gods and deities are a recurrent theme in desi pop art all over. Its amazing how each picture is rich enough to convey the entire odyssey of a deity! This is pop art paying it forward by passing the culture and the mythologies on. To my mind, communication at its desi & creative best :D!
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welcome to the forum, Shikhar!

there is a lot of such work happening around. in fact there is a truck-art group on flickr here


try this thread
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ah! we see so many of these in india they are hardly quaint any more
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@ Saumya
Thank you Saumya :-) I checkd out the flickr link you put up. Its true thers a lot of it around but i still see so much novelty around apart from the fact that its just So interesting to realize the reasons why some of the art is so popular, like the first post! Like i love all of the references that kikikikiki uses for Font Fridays which are predominantly from the streets!

@ Priyanka
There Are a lot of these around, but i specifically find amusement in the ones that offer insight or ones that have an idea behind them :-)!
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can you tell me the idea behind the picture that you have posted?
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DesignBoyz wrote:can you tell me the idea behind the picture that you have posted?
Ive posted that in the respective forum :-)
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There is this kirana-cum-general store-cum- desi dawai outlet down the street that advertises their very famous and supossedly effective personality-yukt concoction.<br />Any takers?
There is this kirana-cum-general store-cum- desi dawai outlet down the street that advertises their very famous and supossedly effective personality-yukt concoction.
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welcome to the forum Shikar!! very true the Indian Pop Art is growing rapidly...whether its the truck painting or auto-rickshaw or just the fonts!!
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jainpooja29 wrote:welcome to the forum Shikar!! very true the Indian Pop Art is growing rapidly...whether its the truck painting or auto-rickshaw or just the fonts!!
Thank you pooja :-)
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Waow...i could make out most of it...what dialect is that? sounds smwhat like nepali
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