page_title: Stencil
section_title: Aerosol stencils
hierarchical_section_title: Stencil / Aerosol stencils
caption_attribution_description: English: Info: A graffiti stencil, from Berlin Germany. Found on the Berlin wall. Translation from Spanish or Portuguese: "Happy 1984" See also here for confirmation that the image comes from the Berlin Wall WARNING: This is NOT historic Berlin Wall graffiti; the button configuration &amp; design clearly makes it a PlayStation DualShock controller, which did not exist until late 1997 in Japan only and wasn't introduced in Europe until 1998. Indeed, the original Flickr source states "Since 1998" in the title. The image was on an actual remaining portion of the berlin wall however
context_page_description: Stencilling produces an image or pattern by applying pigment to a surface over an intermediate object with designed gaps in it which create the pattern or image by only allowing the pigment to reach some parts of the surface. The stencil is both the resulting image or pattern and the intermediate object; the context in which stencil is used makes clear which meaning is intended. In practice, the stencil is usually a thin sheet of material, such as paper, plastic, wood or metal, with letters or a design cut from it, used to produce the letters or design on an underlying surface by applying pigment through the cut-out holes in the material.
  The key advantage of a stencil is that it can be reused to repeatedly and rapidly produce the same letters or design. Although aerosol or painting stencils can be made for one-time use, typically they are made with the intention of being reused. To be reusable, they must remain intact after a design is produced and the stencil is removed from the work surface. With some designs, this is done by connecting stencil islands to other parts of the stencil with bridges.
  Stencil technique in visual art is also referred to as pochoir.
context_section_description: Aerosol stencils have many practical applications and the stencil concept is used frequently in industrial, commercial, artistic, residential and recreational settings, as well as by the military, government and infrastructure management. A template is used to create an outline of the image. Stencils templates can be made from any material which will hold its form, ranging from plain paper, cardboard, plastic sheets, metals, and wood.
caption: "Happy 1984" — Stencil graffiti found on the Berlin Wall in 2005. The object depicted is a DualShock video game controller.
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