{"id":5683,"date":"2023-10-21T13:13:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T11:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/streetsonart.com\/?p=5683"},"modified":"2023-10-21T13:13:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T11:13:28","slug":"nardstars-street-art-style-puts-south-africa-on-the-global-culture-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streetsonart.com\/nardstars-street-art-style-puts-south-africa-on-the-global-culture-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Nardstar’s Street Art Style puts South Africa on the Global Culture Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nardstar, aka Nadia Fisher<\/a> is a South African street art based in the beautiful ocean-side city of Cape Town – my home town. This talented female street artist combines African-style geometric designs with Westernised graphic design styles to create bold, joyful street art murals that convey the artist’s love of life and her country.<\/h3>\n
\"Street<\/p>\n

Street artist Nardstar from South Africa depicts an African Lion Queen in this geometric urban art mural. [source]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Inspired by a City of Culture<\/h1>\n

Cape Town is very cultural city, hosting many music festivals and arts and crafts markets all over its beautiful geography. For artists, the many and varied cultures that can be found in South Africa provide a wide range of sources of inspiration. Being at the most southern tip of Africa, Cape Town receives a lot of visits from those travelling the sea trade routes from Asia to Europe and the Americas.<\/p>\n

This artist favours portraits of African women, young and old, celebrating the culture of her home country on the streets. Not only are there African and European cultures in South Africa; cultures from both the near and far east exist in the country too. This melting pot of cultures has long been referred to by South Africans as The Rainbow Nation. This colorful idea shines forth in Nadia Fisher’s colorful murals.<\/p>\n

\"Graffiti<\/p>\n

Graffiti mural painter Nardstar has given this female African singer powerful pinks and purples to accentuate her song and her femininity. [source]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Surrounded<\/p>\n

Surrounded by local South African proteas and a caracal cat, the motherly African woman in this street art mural by Nardstar seems happy and loving. [source]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Female<\/p>\n

Female street artist Nardstar travelled all the way to Florida in the US to paint the South African flag on this African queen’s graffiti earrings. [source]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Inspired by Nature<\/h1>\n

South Africa has diverse flora and fauna and is famous for both. Lions, elephants, zebras and other art-worthy creatures live there and protea flowers, South Africa’s National Flower<\/a> are coveted by gardeners and flower-lovers worldwide.<\/p>\n

None of this natural inspiration is lost on street artist Nardstar. She incorporates South Africa’s cats, like lionesseses and caracals into her graffiti murals, along with beautiful flowers like proteas<\/a> and pincushions<\/a>. Insects, leaves, birds and other natural elements all add to the liveliness of Nardstar’s geometric street art.<\/p>\n

\"Urban<\/p>\n

Urban artist Nadia Fisher aka Nardstar has given her garffiti mural girl pink hair and an entourage of African insects. [source]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Shoe<\/p>\n

Shoe brand Converse hired African graffiti artist Nardstar to paint this mural of a beautiful African girl with a lionness in her signature geometric, illustrative style. [source]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Using<\/p>\n

Using her signature geometric graffiti style, artist Nadia Fisher gives power to the African woman and her spirit animal, the eagle. [source]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"This<\/p>\n

This fynbos flower also known as a protea flower was painted on this old street wall by urban graffiti artist Nardstar. [source]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Climate Change is Real<\/h1>\n

Fisher’s street art style is very eye-catching and brings joy to those who are privileged enough to witness them in person. As a graffiti artist, Nardstar’s artistic statement is clear – we live in a beautiful world and it’s up to us to protect it. The painter expresses this message not just by showing us how beautiful nature is, but by also building messages about climate change into her urban art works.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

In this portrait of an African woman, Nadia Fisher has hidden the words Climate Change is Real in her afro made of leaves. [source]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Visit Nardstar on her website<\/a> or her Facebook page<\/a> to see more pictures of her amazing work.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nardstar, aka Nadia Fisher is a South African street art based in the beautiful ocean-side city of Cape Town – my home town. This talented female street artist combines African-style geometric designs with Westernised graphic design styles to create bold, joyful street art murals that convey the artist’s love of life and her country. Inspired […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[13,14,427,24,56,433,72,73,80,84,436,399,378,123,132,394,434,154,432,201,428,429,435,211,224,241,431,276,284,292,293,430,323,331],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streetsonart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streetsonart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streetsonart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streetsonart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streetsonart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5683"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/streetsonart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5697,"href":"https:\/\/streetsonart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions\/5697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streetsonart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streetsonart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streetsonart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streetsonart.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}