Pop culture often serves as a major source of inspiration for many modern artists, but no one is doing it like Nashid Chroma. His illustrations draw inspiration from colors and nature, but celebrities remain his biggest muse, and his illustrations do a great job of showing iconic figures in a brand-new light.
Chroma is a digital pop artist based in Toronto, who embarked on quite a creative journey before building an impressive following on social media, with almost 200,000 followers under his belt. He studied fine art and psychology at the University of Waterloo and made a switch to architecture during his master’s studies at the University of Toronto, but eventually decided to stick to digital art.
Chroma’s illustrations are instantly recognizable thanks to floral and geometric symbols that became a cornerstone of his work over the years. He enjoys exploring “the tension between human and object” through his art, and that’s one of the reasons why he decided to focus on celebrity culture.
“Celebrities are real people with emotions, insecurities, and dreams – but they are also idols of secular worship and adoration… There is also the question of intellectual property and copyright that is flirted with in Nashid’s work because of the direct clash between an artist’s freedom of expression and a celebrity’s right of publicity,” he writes on his official website.
