Miss Van also known as Vanessa Castex was born in 1973 in Toulouse, France. She is considered to be one of the most renound people in the graffiti art scene. Miss Van started out by painting on the streets of her home town of toulouse when she was just 18 years old. One of her most famous graffiti pieces is the Sloe-eyed women who is covering a varriety of female form expressing numberours emotions. Miss Vans art work has provoked a widley negative reaction from some feminist groups due to how she has portrayed the women in her art work. Miss Van has recieved a lot of back lask over the years for her painting of the Sloe-Eyed Women even though the reasoning behind these paintings are much more personal than people understand and relise.
Miss Van is one of the pioneers of the original Graffiti forms within France that was born in 1993. Although Miss Van has gained the most notority for her work worldwide she is just once facet of a thriving ever growing graffiti scene in her home town Toulouse. Miss Vans work has been displayed in numerous gallaries across the world including gallaries across Europe and America.
Miss van has recentlety relocated to Barcelona in Spain where she has started work on designing prints for the new Fornarina collection and started to work on her first book.
I really admire admire her work because of the quirkyness of it. also i really like the colours she used, theyre dull but colourfull at the sametime time becuase of the way she uses brown and vibrant colours at the same time.
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