Thierry Noir

Thierry Noir is a French artist and muralist born in Lyon in 1958 and based in Berlin since 1982. He is considered the first artist to have painted the Berlin Wall, from 1984, to make it look ridiculous and help bring it down. His style, dubbed Fast Form Manifest, is instantly recognisable: flat blocks of bright colour, thick black outlines and simplified figures with long noses and round eyes, following his two ideas, three colours principle. He is one of the pioneers of street art.