He chose a different technique – the stencil – as more appropriate for the French architecture.īlek Le Rat’s first stencils were black rats, seen to be running along the walls throughout the centre of Paris. After his impressions from his visit to New York, Blek Le Rat started painting the streets of Paris in 1981. After a trip to the USA in 1971, Blek first witnessed the ‘wild style’ graffiti prevalent in New York City. He is the founder of the international stencil art movement. Born in 1951, Xavier Prou (better known as Blek Le Rat), is one of the first graffiti artists in Paris.
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