Blu - the Artist

Blu is a street artist based in Argentina who uses a personal to conceal his real identity to avoid being caught by the police. Blu has been active in creating his street art since 1999 and has visited other areas of south Africa and a variety of areas in Europe to create his street art. His style began to be defined in 2001 with a slightly surrealist themes and flat coloured characters.

Blu's Logo

 Blu started off using traditional means of creating street art: the classic spray can. Later on as his skills developed he moved to using house paint with a roller attached to a telescopic stick which allowed him to paint larger pieces in more-difficult-to-access areas which literally put his art above the rest. Blu's signature pieces often include human figures and faces with varying styles sometimes directly contrasting each other. Some of his largest pieces are large forms or characters composed of smaller ones,.e.g., a large human formed out of smaller ones. Blu also maintains a website at blublu.org which in addition to a port folio also includes links to some of his videos and animations that he has created using his street art skills. As mentioned Blu creates videos featuring his art; one form of animation he enjoys creating is stop-motion animation, which is manually manipulating subjects and objects and taking a photo of each change (and putting those into a seqeuence) as opposed to filming a video. His most famous video animation is the video 'Muto' which features street-art that evolves and moves around the walls of buildings in  Buenos Aires.

Blu has been known to collaborate with other street artists notably Ericailcane in 2003 and 2006; Ericailcane is nutorous for drawing beautiful painting of animals which complimented Blu's signature human subjects well. The two artists commonly joined each other in nightly runs aroudn the city to anonymously create art in the streets. Blu is internationally famous and has been invited to numerous art shows (a lot of which he declined to conceal his identity and limit his presence in the 'official' world of art). He has been comissioned on several occasions to legally create huge murals on buildings which can take him weeks to months to create.