He no longer paints on walls after in 1991 he was tried for ten years worth of graffiti and had to pay substantial fines, and would face jail if caught again. He changed the ‘le Rock’ to ‘le Rat’ because his first stencil was a rat and because you can find art in rat.
He was a pioneer of stencil graffiti and one of the first artist to move to using a symbol rather than his name as his tag.īlek le rat created his mane from a cartoon strip he used to read as a child ‘Blek le Rock’. Blek has now painted on walls all over the world and has influenced a whole generation of street artists. The fist of these was an old man wearing glasses and screaming. After the rats he moved onto using life sizes portraits. He was inspired to create this stencil after seeing the graffiti in New York in the 70’s, but he didn’t just want to copy the American style he wanted to create a style that suited Paris and so he chose the stencil as he saw this something very Latin. He started decorating the streets of Paris in 1981 with a rat stencil, hoping to create an invasion of rats in the city. Blek has been adorning the streets of Paris with his hugely original and intelligent artwork since the early eighties, and he has been a massive influence on today’s graffiti and guerrilla art movements.
He is a grand master of street art and considered by many to be the originator of stencil graffiti. He set the stage for an artistic revolution through years of absolute obscurity.īlek Le Rat (Xavier Prou) was born in Paris in 1951. Despite the enormous role he played in 1980s and 1990s street art, Blek le Rat has kept a relatively low profile throughout most of his career to avoid prison time and fines. When French police revealed his birth name after arresting him in 1991, he has been arrested and harassed by police in the US, Argentina and the UK. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.Blek le Rat worked consistently through the 1990s and 2000s. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. Wikidata:WikiProject Video games/Statistics/Voice actor.
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