Blu

Blu is an anonymous street artist from Argentina. He lives in Bologna, and has been doing visual/street art since 1999. His work is displayed on buildings all around the world, after becoming famous through his initial street art around Bologna. In 2001 he started to do his work on a bigger scale, and complete bigger pieces of artwork. This made his work stand out much more and people started to recognise this, eventually making him better known globally.

Blu then went on to start creating short animated films with other artists, with work now displayed in countries such as Poland, Greece, Spain and Italy. The video below is about the consequences of evolution. Lots of Blu's videos have some kind of meaning within the animations.




http://vimeo.com/13085676


In 2008 Blu was asked to complete a piece of artwork for the Tate Modern building, in celebration of street art and Blu as an artist. Blu's work is done at a consistent fast pace, and is influences through the area or building he is working on. Blu still creates street art animation and uses iStopMotion to paint his work on walls and pavements, after covering each frame in grey to keep up a consistent flow to the finished piece. Blu's most famous animation was done in Buenos Aires and Baden, and is why he is so well known and popular.