Miss.Tic
{{short description|French artist (1956–2022)}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name = Miss.Tic
| image = Miss.Tic 2012.jpg
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| caption = Portrait of Miss.Tic, 2012
| birth_name = Radhia Novat
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1956|02|20}}
| birth_place = Montmartre, French Fourth Republic
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|05|22|1956|02|20}}
| death_place = Paris, French Fifth Republic
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| known_for =
| notable_works =
| style = Stencil
| movement = Street art
| father = Mohammed Aounallah
| mother = Ginette Baudin
}}
Miss.Tic (born Radhia Novat; 20 February 1956 – 22 May 2022)[https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2022/05/22/miss-tic-princesse-du-graffiti-est-morte-a-l-age-de-66-ans_6127219_3382.html Miss Tic, princesse du graffiti, est morte à l’âge de 66 ans] www.lemonde.fr {{in lang|fr}}, accessed 23 May 2022 was a French artist. She was known for her stencils of dark-haired women seen in the streets of Paris and associated with poetry. She was active as a street artist from 1985 onward.{{Cite web|title=Miss.Tic|url=https://womenstreetartists.com/misstic-1|access-date=14 September 2020|website=Women Street Artists|language=en-US}}
Biography
Miss.Tic was born in 1956 in Montmartre, France, to a Tunisian immigrant father and a French mother from Normandy. She spent her childhood there until 1964 when the family moved to Orly, in the southern suburbs of Paris. She lost her mother, her little brother, and her grandmother in a car accident at the age of ten; her father died six years later. She was then raised by her stepmother, a barmaid. She escaped from that world and quickly started to work on her stencils. In the early 1980s, she spent a few years in California, among punk milieus of San Francisco and Los Angeles.{{Cite web|last=à 19h36|first=Par Frédéric ChouletLe 28 mai 2018|date=28 May 2018|title=Miss. Tic à cœur perdu|url=https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/sortir-region-parisienne/miss-tic-a-coeur-perdu-28-05-2018-7740603.php|access-date=14 September 2020|website=leparisien.fr|language=fr-FR}}
She returned to Paris after the breakup of a relationship, and began her designs on the walls of parts of Ménilmontant, Montmartre, le Marais, Montorgueil, and la Butte-aux-Cailles. In 1985 she signed her first personal exhibition based on her art.[http://www.liberation.fr/portrait/2005/11/17/une-femme-mur_539317 Une femme mur] (17 November 2005, republished 2022) biography in the French newspaper Libération, accessed 23 May 2022
Thereafter she spread her ideas through poems and wordplay on walls and in books and exhibitions.
In 1985, she participated in the first meeting of the graffiti and urban art movement in Bondy, France, on the VLP's initiative, with Speedy Graphito, Kim Prisu, Jef Aérosol, SP 38, Epsylon Point, Blek le Rat, Futura 2000, Nuklé-Art, and Banlieue-Banlieue.
In March 2011, a series of stamps was issued for International Women's Day inspired by some of her stencils.
Miss.Tic died of cancer in Paris, France, on 22 May 2022, at the age of 66.
Collections
- Fonds d’art contemporain - Paris Collections.{{Cite web|title=Rencontre avec l'artiste Miss.Tic|url=https://www.paris.fr/pages/rencontre-avec-l-artiste-miss-tic-5977|access-date=14 September 2020|website=www.paris.fr|language=fr}}{{Cite web|date=13 June 2017|title=Miss Tic - Street Artist Poétesse|url=https://www.artjingle.com/artiste/miss-tic/|access-date=14 September 2020|website=Galerie Art Jingle|language=en-US}}
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.{{Cite web|title=Your Search Results {{!}} Search the Collections {{!}} Victoria and Albert Museum|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/name/miss-tic/A14478/|access-date=14 September 2020|website=collections.vam.ac.uk}}
- Musée Ingres, Montauban.
- Mucem, Marseille.{{Cite web|title=Livre - Parisienne|url=https://www.mucem.org/en/collections/explorez-les-collections/objet?object_max=3&object_pos=0&term=miss%20tic&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdata.mucem.org%2Fc%2F128812|access-date=14 September 2020|website=Mucem|language=en}}
References
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External links
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- [http://missticinparis.com/ Miss.Tic in Paris]
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Category:French graffiti artists
Category:20th-century French painters
Category:21st-century French painters
Category:Women graffiti artists
Category:French women muralists
Category:French people of Tunisian descent
Category:French expatriates in the United States
Category:20th-century French women painters
Category:21st-century French women painters
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