Blek le Rat

Blek le Rat is one of the pioneers of French urban art. Beginning to paint with stencils on the street in 1981, his work is recognizable by the little silhouettes of rats running along the walls of Paris. This anagram of the word "art" became his signature alongside his more or less famous life-size human figures. This seminal stencil work greatly influenced Banksy's a few years later.