Chapter 02 — The Art Form
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The Living Canvas
Every panel, a private commission
Painted fresh in Old Dhaka studios — each 60 x 80 cm back-panel fitted to its puller within 48 hours.
Four colours compose every world
Cobalt skies, fire-red heroes, sunshine-yellow script, and leaf-green fields — the entire palette in four tins.
Eight hundred thousand moving canvases
Dhaka's rickshaw fleet is the world's largest mobile art exhibition, repainted each monsoon season.
Made to fade, made again
Unlike gallery art, rickshaw panels weather and are re-commissioned — keeping painters in constant demand.