About This Lot Blek Le Rat is a pioneering French graffiti artist. Considered "the father of stencil graffiti," the artist's style has influenced street artists around the world, including Banksy.

Blek le Rat is a French graffiti artist. He uses stencils and spray paint to create wall paintings, using photographic sources and juxtaposition to convey provocative and politically controversial ...

Showing at Woodbury House in London is The Return of The Rat — the first UK exhibition by iconic French street artist Blek le Rat (born Xavier Prou) in over a decade. Having risen to prominence in the ...

Motivated by social consciousness and a desire to bring the art to the people, Blek Le Rat's political agenda is clear. And while parallels are drawn between his work and that of his British ...

He started with rat stencils to emphasise his new name, which was a play on well-known 1960s comic character Blek le Roc ("rat is also an anagram of art"), but also because there was something ...

Parisian artist Xavier Prou, 59, pictured, who works under the name Blek le Rat, claims he invented the life-sized stencil technique that Banksy would later use to make his name.

The Quin hotel welcomes Blek le Rat as its artist in residence this fall with an exhibit titled, "Blek le Rat | Escaping Paris." Curated by DK Johnston, the exhibit features 10 large-scale ...

Blek le Rat is on display at the Opera Gallery, 134 New Bond Street, W1s 2TF until 17 May. Entrance is free. For an excellent interview with Blek Le Rat, see the Independent.

Blek Le Rat has inspired and helped to define the current landscape of street art. Here he tells us how he began his career and what he thinks of Banksy. In the video above, Blek names Banksy as ...

Born in 1951, Parisian artist Blek Le Rat is widely considered the grand master of street and the originator of stencil graffiti. Styled by the Sunday Times as “the rat who gave birth to Banksy ...

The rat following “Haight Street Rat” is French street artist Blek le Rat, a pioneer in street art stenciling, and he will be in Waco this week to paint on six downtown buildings.

The piece of art by Le Rat (right in the image below) was not, though the building owners were fine with its presence. Le Rat, “one of the Godfathers of Stencil Art” who served as an inspiration for ...