In addition to his hometown of Paris, he has worked in cities such as Berlin, Cologne, Leipzig, Wiesbaden, London, New York, San Francisco, Florence, Naples, Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Marrakesh and Munich. Blek is credited with being the inventor of the life-sized stencil and the first to transform stencils from basic lettering into pictorial art.Today’s graffiti art around the world. Blek initially painted stencils of rats on the walls and described the rat as ‘the only free animal in the city’. The École de Blek le Rat postulated by the French newspaper “Le Monde” in 1987 included the pochoirists Jérome Mesnager, Marie Rouffet and many more. Blek le Rat began creating works from 1981, using the Paris streets as his canvas of choice. From 1983, other pochoirists followed his example. He was using a photograph from the French newspaper “Libération” as motif. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. It shows an old man from Northern Ireland scolding British soldiers in an umbrella cap. View Blek le Rat’s 565 artworks on artnet. At the end of 1983 the duo BLEK separated and Xavier Prou adopted the name BLEK LE RAT.Īlso in 1983, he sprayed his first large-format stencil. His first motifs were small-format works such as rats, tanks and bananas. After that he works with the stencil technique, which he has seen before. In October 1981, they first tried to spray a freehand piece, but in his eyes this failed completely. After a trip to the USA in 1971, Blek first witnessed the ‘wild style’ graffiti prevalent in New York City. He is the founder of the international stencil art movement. Blek le Rat first began together with his friend Gérard Dumas as the artist duo BLEK. Born in 1951, Xavier Prou (better known as Blek Le Rat), is one of the first graffiti artists in Paris. He studied graphic art and then architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1971 to 1983. The pseudonym is based on the French comic character “Blek le Roc”. Although punks had already used this technique to spread their graffiti before him. He is regarded as the forefather of stencil art (street art) in public space. Keywords: Subcultural graffiti Banksy Blec le Rat Street art Stencil Stencilling Professor Paul Gough, Pro Vice-Chancellor and. Blek le Rat (real name: Xavier Prou) was born in 1951 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
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