You're missing nothing. Not everyone has to like every artist. Carry on.

That's a nice one.
Some are great art works and some aren't. Like every other artist.

taking one look at your avatar i would say YES

faile were out of 'fashion' for a long time. only now that the quality of their NY work is being appreciated fully

faile is terribly addictive....

totally agreed on that Blek point.

ive no clue... especially the canvases with rats.

Faile - Their images are there to stimulate thought - to question what's going on in the picture. Their early stuff was of naked women lying on beds, it was just meant to appear beautiful and thought provoking - a contrast to the political stuff that was usually pasted up.

They've developed as artists and now their work is often concerned with the weathering of street art - numerous layers, ripped and on top of one another. You often see this on their large canvases.

I think they're also probably more likely to collaborate (at least in the past) than other artists.

This is one reason I love Blek...one of my absolute favs and it just came back from the framer!

I like the Rats for a couple of reasons.

What I really like on my walls inside are street images that have done their time outside so to me collecting stencil based stuff these are like a holy grail, one of the first images to be stencilled in Europe and arguably the first in this era of stencilled art. I love the historical significance and really feel privileged to get to look after a part of the history of this "scene".

I like the use of rats in graf, I don't think Blek meant them like this but anyway. For a lot of my life I've been one of the rats, unloved and unwanted by society but always there, impossible to get rid of and ultimately surviving and thriving whatever is thrown at us. I love the symbology of the rat and I know my thoughts are more in line with Banksys Rats but it's still a rat and when I bought mine I was lucky enough to get it at a price that was about half that of the cheapest Banksy Rat. I read recently that the image is in fact a shadow of a rat which kind of makes it even better in my mind, it's a rat but it's not even really there, we don't see it, it passes us by and we ignore it. The other Blek image that makes me feel like this is Beggar.

Don't know why he's the Godfather except if Banksys the Daddy then Blek has to come first, suppose it sounds better than the Grandad of graf, although that does have a bit of a ring to it ;D

Anyhow that's why I like them

Just did a quick image search for Nemo and Mesnager, good stuff cheers. Think I like Nemo more can see lots of inspiration has come from some of that stuff but some of Mesnagers placements are amazing, really interacting with the environment. I'm going to look more when I'm not so tired.

here's the big picture - wish i could remove that sign!

OG canvas from a few years back. not mine. a real stunner fo sho

Love that piece - in the US I take it??