Miss.Tic’s work often includes sly word combinations and a heroine with flowing black hair. (File)
Paris:
Miss.Tic, whose provocative illustrations began appearing in Paris’ Montmartre neighborhood in the mid-1980s and made her a pioneer of French street art, died Sunday 66 age, her family told AFP.
Radhia Novat grew up in the narrow streets of the shadow of the Sacre-Coeur basilica, the daughter of a Tunisian father and mother from Normandy in western France, where she began casting guns sly and liberating signal.
Her family says she died of an illness of unknown cause.
Miss.Tic’s work often includes mischievous ligatures – almost always lost in translation – and a heroine with flowing black hair, like the artist herself, and images turned furniture. on walls all over the capital.
Miss.Tic said in a 2011 interview: “I have a background in street theater and I love the idea of this street art.
“At first, I thought, ‘I’m going to write poetry.’ And then, ‘we need images’ with these poems. I started with self-portraits and then focused on women. other,” she said.
A good example from her early days: “I rocked your nights with every compromise.”
Her works were soon shown in galleries in France and abroad, some of which were acquired by the Paris modern art fund of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, according to her website.
Miss.Tic also attracted the attention of law enforcement over complaints of defacement of public property, which led to her arrest in 1997, and in a spell she was the lover. likes fashion brands like Kenzo and Louis Vuitton.
“I usually use modern women, who they show us in fashion and advertising. So people often don’t understand that you can be young and beautiful and have a lot to say,” she told AFP. In 2011.
“But it’s true that they sell us what they want with beautiful women. So I thought, I’m going to use these women to sell them poetry.”
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