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Blek Le Rat (Born 1951) is active/lives in France, England, United Kingdom. Blek Le Rat is known for Graffiti art.
Blek le Rat, born Xavier Prou in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris in 1952, was one of the first graffiti artists in Paris, and the originator of stencil graffiti art.
He began his artwork in 1981, painting stencils of rats on the street walls of Paris, describing the rat as "the only free animal in the city", and one which "spreads the plague everywhere, just like street art". His name originates from a childhood cartoon "Blek le Roc", using "rat" as an anagram for "art".
?Initially influenced by the early graffiti art of New York City after a visit in 1971, he chose a style which he felt better suited Paris, due to the differing architecture of the two cities. He also stated the influence of New York's Richard Hamilton, who painted large-scale human figures in the 1980s. Le Rat 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.
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Graffiti Street Art Tagger, Urban Art
Stencil Graffiti Art
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Acrylic Paint
Oil Paint
Stencil and/or Theorem, Pochoir Painting
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