Blek le Rat

The “Father of Graffiti” (Silver, 2014), Blek Le Rat (or Xavier Prou) (Sherwin, 2011) is a notorious street artist who innovatively used the Urbanscape as a mean for presenting his art through stencilling as a form of replication. BLR took his inspiration from 1970s street art and graffiti he was inundated with in New York and adapted his own theme of art he believed suited Paris from it. His rat stencils brought rise to fame as he painted them around France during the beginning of his career. (McNamara, 2011) (See appendix A). The rats were his first stencil he mass painted around Paris, this is what brought him his initial notoriety. His use of the alias “Blek Le Rat” was instigated by a cartoon he watched as a child “Blek Le Roc”. (Stencil…

in the western suburbs of Paris in 1951, some may know him as Blek Le Rat. He studied fine art and architecture at Beaux-Arts in Paris, then graduated in 1982. Before he graduated, Xavier Prou visited New York City and was fascinated with the city’s street art. He was one of the first people ever to do graffiti art in Paris. He is also known as "Father of stencil graffiti". One of his first stencils paintings were of rats all along the walls of Paris. He called these rats "the only free animal…

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