![]() In 1983 Blek began to paint life-size stencils. The rat, also an anagram for ‘art’, is in Blek’s mind “the only animal to survive the apocalypse“. He chose a different technique – the stencil – as more appropriate for the French architecture.īlek Le Rat’s first stencils were black rats, seen to be running along the walls throughout the centre of Paris. ![]() After his impressions from his visit to New York, Blek Le Rat started painting the streets of Paris in 1981. 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. ![]() Born in 1951, Xavier Prou (better known as Blek Le Rat), is one of the first graffiti artists in Paris. ![]()
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