Blek Le Rat Vs Banksy

El estilo de le rat es dibujar ratas soldados y personas de tamaño real con plantillas.

Blek le rat vs banksy. I have a half moon and a star this is the sign of my family says street artist blek le rat real name xavier prou gesturing to the gold signet ring adorning his right hand. Veinte años más tarde llega banksy a dibujar precisamente lo mismo y se justifica diciendo cada vez que creo que he pintado algo ligeramente original me doy cuenta de que blek le rat lo hizo mejor sólo que veinte años antes. Blek began his artwork in 1981 painting stencils of rats on the walls of paris streets. The truth is that blek is much older and has been around on the scene a lot longer but it s easy to see how his work is an influence.

The 56 year old frenchman was stencilling city walls while banksy was getting to. After meeting blek le rat at his ratical exhibition in chicago along with my side kick chicagojohnny i spent the entire next day filming what he does best making art in. He described the rat as the only free animal in the city and one which spreads the plague everywhere just like street art. Banksy is now one of the most famous artists worldwide almost reaching a level of iconography where as blek le rat has never achieved such renown and global recognition.

In 2011 blek was seen adding to a mural begun the previous year by banksy in. Banksy now believed to be 38 was still at primary. His name originates from the comic book blek le roc using rat as an anagram for art. British graffiti artist banksy has acknowledged blek s influence stating every time i think i ve painted something slightly original i find out that blek le rat has done it as well only twenty years earlier the two have expressed mutual desire for collaboration.

Xavier prou 59 who works under the name blek le rat invented the life sized stencil technique that banksy would later use to make his name. Yet if banksy is indeed the daddy of politically conscious graffiti let me introduce the godfather blek le rat. We are comparing. Whatever banksy s true feelings are towards this pioneer of the street art genre one thing is for sure and that is that the student has become the master.

A homage to blek le rat perhaps or blek himself. Cited by banksy as a key influence you can see this in the work of blek le rat but is blek really banksy after all they both could be seen as pioneers of the single layered stencil form which made banksy so famous.