This French Artist Created Street Art Using a Process That Involved Stencils and Spray Paint.

Stencil graffiti on a wall in Namur, Belgium

Stencil graffiti is a course of graffiti that makes utilize of stencils made out of paper, paper-thin, or other media to create an image or text that is easily reproducible. The desired design is cutting out of the selected medium and and then the prototype is transferred to a surface through the use of spray paint or roll-on paint.

The process of stencilling involves applying pigment across a stencil to course an image on a surface beneath. Sometimes multiple layers of stencils are used on the same image to add colours or create the illusion of depth.

Because the stencil stays uniform throughout its utilize, it is easier for an artist to replicate what could be a complicated piece - at a loftier charge per unit when compared to other conventional tagging methods.

History [edit]

Stencil graffiti began in the 1960s.

French creative person Ernest Pignon-Ernest'south stencilled silhouette of a nuclear bomb victim was spray painted in the southward of France in 1966 (Plateau d'Albion, Vaucluse)^{[ commendation needed ]}

Blek le Rat's get-go spray painted stencils were seen in Paris in 1981. He was influenced by the graffiti artists of New York City but wanted to create something of his ain.

An early use of stencil for a tag name, 'Caper', this was by Dee (aka Caper) around 1987. He was function of the graffiti writers group called R2F 'Set up to Fascinate', later known as the Vinyl Junkies from Hayes and Southall, London / United kingdom.

Political graffiti in Poland.
Kraków ul. Podgórska fifteen.

Australian lensman Rennie Ellis documented some of the earliest examples of stencil art to appear in Sydney and Melbourne in his 1985 book The All New Australian Graffiti. In the introduction to the volume, Ellis noted that US photographer Charles Gatewood had written to him and sent him photographs of similar stencil graffiti that had recently appeared in New York Metropolis, leading Ellis to speculate that:

... dissimilar our subway-mode graffiti, which is nothing more than a copy of a well-established New York tradition, the symbols of Australia and America had originated separately and unknown to each other.^[i]

Over the years this class of graffiti has become a worldwide subculture. The members are linked through the Internet and the images spray-painted on the urban canvas they place throughout the world. Many of its members connect through blogs and websites that are specifically built to display works, get feedback on posted works, and receive news of what is going on in the world of stencil graffiti.

Stencil graffiti is illegal in some jurisdictions, and many of the members of this subculture shroud their identities in aliases. To a higher place, Banksy, Blek le Rat, Vhils, Shepard Fairey, Jef Aérosol and Tavar Zawacki are some names that are synonymous with this subculture.

Notes [edit]

^ Ellis, Rennie; The All New Australian Graffiti, Sun Books (Macmillan), Melbourne, 1985 (ISBN 0-7251-0484-8)

C215:"Stencil History X". C215, 2007. ISBN two-9525682-2-7
Louis Bou: "Street Art". Instituto Monsa de ediciones, S.A., 2005. ISBN 84-96429-11-3 [1]
BTOY: "BTOY:DY:002". Belio Magazine, S.L, 2007. ISBN 84-611-4752-9

References [edit]

Jinman, Richard, "Street art moves to a posh new hang-out", The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, Commonwealth of australia, April nine, 2007.
Norman, James, "Graffiti goes upmarket", The Age, Melbourne, Australia, August 16, 2003.
Reiss, Jon, [Swindle Magazine: Issue 11] May 3, 2008
Bello, Manuel, ["Shepard Fairey Interview."Interview with Fecal Face up] 14 Aug.2007.
Bello, Manuel ["Blek Le Rat Interview" with Fecal Face] [2]
Rogers, Michelle, "Jef Droplets", Gadabout Paris, Paris, France, 2008.

C215 Community Service, Criteres ed. 2011