Thursday, 15 December 2011

Practitioner 1: BLU


BLU is an Argentine street artist who conceals his real identity from the public. He lives in Bologna and has been working in Street art since 1999. BLU has travelled around the world performing his unique street art. He was first known for his work with spray paint. In 2001 BLU began to make his work bigger, better and more noticeable and managed to stand out enough to make him known to street artists around the world.

In 2008 the Tate Modern building hosted a celebration of street art, BLU was asked to paint on the Tate Modern building for this event as a respected street artist. BLU creates incredible animations on streets which add up to millions of online views. BLU uses walls and pavements as his canvas and is capable of creating minutes of animation on one wall. This is one of BLUs most famous and innovative videos, it is named MUTO and is a wall-painted animation created by BLU.



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