In 1983, Prou began seeing the first in a long line of artists who were inspired by him to make street art using stencils. New Yorkers like John Fekner and David Wojnarowicz were also using the technique on the other side of the Atlantic, but, like New York-style graffiti, stenciling had not reached Paris before Prou’s work. Prou’s trademark style was the use of stencils combined with spraypaint, which he says was unique in Paris at the time. Xavier Prou aka Blek le Rat believes that when he began making street art in Paris in 1981, there were two other active street artists in the city and any graffiti was political graffiti. A prime example of this took place in Paris in the 1980’s. In the days when information about what was going on with graffiti and street art outside of one’s own city was extremely limited, the result was that cities often developed quite distinct styles. Stencils by Blek le Rat at Cans Festival in London in 2008.
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