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…

creations. Haring’s genius was in his ability to communicate very directly immediately through chosen symbols and iconography. Another rare-seen work on the view is Haring's 1982 statue of liberty in a fluorescent green pink, yellow and orange colored enamel and acrylic on fiberglass of the iconic sculpture in Pearl Harbor. “Racism is an issue that was of paramount concern to Haring.” -Cox Blek le Rat was a political graffiti artist like Banksy, his real name is Xavier Prou. He began his…

artist he is painter, a self-published writer and a film director. Banksy is a controversial graffiti artist whose main focus is political activism. He has worked with many street artists and with a variety of street art methods. He is alive and well and continues to impact streets around the world with his artistic accomplishments. Banksy was presumably born in Bristol, England around 1974. No one knows who he is or his real name. Banksy began his career in the early 1990’s with a graffiti…

Street art and graffiti, two very different styles of expression are commonly assumed to be the same. Banksy, a street artist, film director, and political activist known for his subversive and satirical street art fused with dark humor. His works of social and political commentary are arguably the most evocative and raw pieces in the world of street art. One of the influences that made Banksy the artist he is today was Robert Del Ninja. Robert generally used a stencil for his work. His famous…

local zoo, which resulted in an arrest. Phase 2: Regarded in graffiti history as the creator of popular style graffiti, Phase 2 developed bubble writing in New York City during the 1970s. The influence of his distinctive bubble style writing can still be seen today in the works of graffiti artists. SAMO: Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat first came to public attention with his tag SAMO on the streets of New York City between 1977 to 1980. After noticing the SAMO tag in 1979, artist Keith Haring…

just admires his work. Intro A UK born artist, started as part of the DryBreadZ Crew in Bristol, while in the crew adopted the name Banksy, to keep his identity a secret, which is now synonymous with graffiti, he also worked with Inkie and other noteworthy artists, who continue to work with him. He has been representing political and social occurrences through his artwork for years, which are featured throughout the world, defacing all properties, even having installations or structures and…

“TV has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed paint, but graffiti remains gloriously un-spoilt by progress (Banksy). Banksy’s work has fans of equal measure; they either love it or hate it. To those who loathe him, he is nothing but a graphic designer and talented self-publicist. To his fans, however, he is the voice of dissent in a media-obsessed capitalist society Banksy’s early interest in grafitti came through seeing the work of 3D (now of Massive…

Some of the more famous and eldest street artists today are Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Blek le Rat, Retna, Primary Flight, Typoe, Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada and others. The works of the street artists have been commercially recognized through its use in advertisement, fashion branding, films, music packaging, and media. Moreover, the galleries and the museums started to exponentially appreciate and endorse the street art pieces. For instance, I first brought my attention to the importance of the street…

craftsmanship and subversive sayings join dim diversion with graffiti executed in an unique stenciling system. Such imaginative works of political and social critique have been offered on lanes, dividers, and scaffolds of urban communities all through the world.banksy's work was made up of the Bristol underground scene which included coordinated efforts in the middle of craftsmen and musicians.According to writer and visual originator Tristan Manco and the book Home Sweet Home, Banksy "was…