Stencilling rats, he said, gave him a way to stand out and be free of major city anonymity. His description of rats as “the only free animal in the city” became a metaphor for the spread of street art, likened to the plague that rats can spread, as well as being the only wild animals that live in the city. His style was initially painting stencilled rats in the urban Parisian landscape. Always having a love and fascination for street art, he was inspired by a visit to New York City in 1971, and began creating his own street art in Paris in 1981. Known to many as the Father of Stencil Graffiti, Blek le Rat founded the stencil urban art form in Paris by the River Seine in the 1980s.īlek le Rat is Parisian Xavier Prou, born in the early 1950s. Long before Banksy took the world of street art by storm with his stencil graffiti, there was Blek le Rat…
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