Miss.Tic - Rest In Paint
Paris street art legend Miss.Tic dies at 66
Radhia Novat began cropping up in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris in the mid-80s and became a pioneer of French street art. Her family said she had died of an unspecified illness.
Le Monde with AFP
Published on May 23, 2022 at 03h15
Miss.Tic, whose provocative work began cropping up in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris in the mid-80s and made her a pioneer of French street art, died on Sunday at 66, her family told AFP.
Radhia Novat grew up in the narrow streets in the shadow of Sacré-Cœur basilica, the daughter of a Tunisian father and a mother from Normandy in western France, where she began stencilling sly and emancipatory slogans. Her family said she had died of an unspecified illness.
'One of the founders of stencil art'
Other French street artists paid tribute to her work. On Twitter, street artist Christian Guemy, alias C215, hailed "one of the founders of stencil art". The walls of the 13th arrondissement of Paris where her images are a common sight "will never be the same again", he wrote.
Another colleague, "Jef Aerosol" said she had fought her final illness with courage, in a tribute posted on Instagram. And France's newly appointed Culture Minister, Rima Abdul Malak, saluted her "iconic, resolutely feminist" work.
Miss.Tic's work often included clever wordplays – almost always lost in translation – and a heroine with flowing black hair who resembled the artist herself. The images became fixtures on walls across the capital.
