![]() ![]() Blek le Rat, The warrior with a red flower - Large: Prices and Value The warrior with a red flower - Large was made in 2020 with acrylic and spray paint on wood, measures 100x100 cm and is signed in original by the artist. Blek le Rat is nowadays considered one of the pioneers of Street Art, imitated by subsequent generations of street artists. With Blek le Rat, stencil graffiti and street art become one in unmistakable works that perfectly fits the urban space. In those years Blek le Rat began to paint with the stencil technique rats on the walls of Paris, rats that represent street art itself and its mission to spread and exist as an "alternative" world. On the background we find graffiti and writings, as if it were a city wall.ĭistinctive mark of the artist, the rat is the protagonist of Blek le Rat’s works since the beginning of his artistic career in the eighties. Unique work by Blek le Rat, The warrior with a red flower - Large represents on a white background the silhouette made with stencil of a rat holding a rifle with a flower at the end. His pal Shepard Fairey, who designed President Obama's 'Hope' poster, has said of Prou: "Blek le Rat's stencils distill the essence of the human struggle into poetically concise images.Blek le Rat - The warrior with a red flower - Large - Unique Work Several lithographs present violinists and ballet dancers, while he has also made a limited number of lithographs depicting President Obama. His latest exhibit riffs on a recurring theme of tango dancers, which he first painted in 1986. "It’s very important to be in the street, but also very important for artists to show different work in the gallery." "Its absolutely incredible having a really good piece in the street - the day after it is complete thousands and thousands of people have seen it," Prou explained. The illegal nature of Prou's work and the growing legitimization of street art has led him to exhibit in galleries with greater frequency. (Prou started stenciling rats around Paris in 1981, when Banksy, whose identity is rumored but not confirmed, was reportedly just in grade school.) ![]() "Every time I think I've painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek le Rat has done it as well, only 20 years earlier," Banksy is widely quoted as saying. ![]()
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