OSAKA--The Airin district of this city's Nishinari Ward is home to flophouses for day laborers, hardly a canvas one might imagine a talented street graffiti artist to revel in. Yet, stencil ...
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 ...
Early forms of graffiti, such as stencil art, were created by blowing paint through tubes to form handprints, possibly functioning as early "tags," and some of the oldest examples, like ...
Artists including Blek Le Rat (the “father of stencil graffiti”), Roc Blackblock, Suriani and Vegan Bunnies defend their actions, and discuss whether such “freedom of expression” on walls ...