![]() His works often represent solitary individuals that can be encountered in the urban space – women, children, old people and all kinds of contemporary characters. He is credited with being the inventor of the life-sized stencil, as well as the first to transform stencil from basic lettering into pictoral art.īlek, who has influenced generations of urban artists around the world, boasts a subtle social commitment and considers his images as a gift he gives to the city. In 1983, Blek began painting human-sized stencils. The rat, the anagram of the word ART, is for Blek « the only animal that will survive the apocalypse ». His first stencils were small black rats that he made run along the walls of Paris. ![]() But when he began to paint in the street in 1981 in Paris, he chose the stencil that had a more latin style which he felt was better suited to the architecture of Paris. Blek le Rat, born Xavier Prou in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris in 1951, was one of the very first graffiti artists in Paris, and is considered the originator of stencil movement.ĭuring a trip to the United States in 1971, he discovered the first graffiti in NYC which intrigued and impressed him deeply.
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