"I love to work in places I don't know because these locations allow me to get in touch with a new atmosphere, new lights and new people." You should ask Banksy what he thinks about me."īlek's illegal work has continued to appear throughout new cities. Blek is quoted as saying, "I don't care about Banksy. Indeed there has been talk within the art world of a rivalry between the two and Banksy has been accused by some of outright plagiarism. Blek is particularly famous for his full scale human character stencils and many consider him the inventor of stencils in street art.Īlthough Blek created street art before Banksy, he has not had the same mainstream success as Banksy. From that moment on, his main body of work has been carried out using pre-stencilled posters for speedier application to walls lessening the likelihood of being caught in the act.
The police put two and two together which equalled the arrest of Blek. He describes the rat as an ideal subject, "because they create fear, they are synonymous with invasion and they are the only wild animals (apart from) pigeons that live in the city." Blek Le Rat began spreading his message in 1981, painting stencils of rats on the streets of Paris.īlek's identity was revealed to French authorities in 1991 while stencilling a replica of Caravaggio's Madonna and Child. His pseudonym, Blek Le Rat, originates from a childhood cartoon "Blek le Roc", using "rat" as an anagram for "art". Tracing the Origins of TraseOne – From Pioneering Singapore Street Artist to Designer of a Cultural Communityġ951 saw the birth of Xavier Prou, the man who would become one of the first graffiti artists in Paris and the originator of stencil graffiti art.Silver has shown an even slower increase, on average 1.20% between 20 and an overall decline of 1.42% within the timeframe of 2010-2020. A classic case of low-risk low-return investment, the gold market promises a much slower growth than the stunning rate at which Banksy’s rats jumped to ten times their 2008 prices by 2020. Investment returns on gold have picked up between 20 by 8.26%, but looking at the bigger picture, growth between 20 has progressed at a much slower rate, 2.50%, with some fluctuations between 20. The prices of Banksy’s works, on the other hand has shown a steady increase and will progress to do so due to the artist’s regular output and rapidly growing popularity on the art market. Between 20 it dropped by 6.24% and is continuously fluctuating, influenced by various unpredictable geopolitical factors. Oil might be one of the most conventional modes of investment, however, figures by S&P GSCI between 2010 to 2020 show the average annual return on crude oil dropping by 10.48%.
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