How to NFT 3: Art

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2022-04-10 05:31

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The rise of artistic NFTs is largely driven by a small community of digital artists. As the scene gained more attention and influence, other artists slowly joined in. Emerging digital artists use NFT as an opportunity to showcase their work, while traditional well-known artists have also begun to experiment with digital artwork.

Artists and creators can now create artwork directly in the form of NFTs and earn income directly from their fans without any middlemen. Regardless of fees from distributors and publishers, artists can now earn their fair share based on what users are willing to pay.

NFTs have basically opened the door to the digital art industry because they can protect copyright ownership. Before NFTs, the Internet was a blue ocean of artworks, because anyone could easily copy these media assets without any attribution of ownership. Now NFTs allow artists to put their original mark on any digital medium. Although this still doesn't stop people"copy and paste", but it can prove the provenance of the artwork.

Collectors are willing to spend huge sums on NFT artwork because these NFTs are limited and have proof of ownership on the blockchain. In other words, NFTs promote the value of origin and provenance - which is important,because"and"and"painter's identity"Actors have played a role.There are many examples in the traditional art industry where paintings are sold cheaply, butOnce the original author and owner are identified, the value will be revalued。

Additionally, NFTs provide creators with a unique connection not available in any other art form. There are many benefits of using digital media, such as portability and enabling more creativity. For example, artists can incorporate sound and movement into their compositions.

The diversity of different art forms provides greater appeal to a larger audience, thereby providing opportunities for artists and creators to expand their fan base. New collectors include investors from the cryptocurrency community and existing art collectors who may have heard of art NFTs from the wider media attention. As art NFTs gain acceptance as an investable asset class, their rise has also attracted institutional investors.

definition of art

Art has been an important part of human culture since ancient times. It has always been an expressive medium for humans to portray creativity, dreams, visions and more.

Art is also subjective. It takes many forms, from sculpture, such as Auguste Rodin's The Thinker, to Michelangelo's famous frescoes adorning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. With the advent of the internet, art now exists in digital form and is created natively on digital platforms. In a sense, NFTs are a combination of technological advancement and art.

Now, art is no longer just drawn or printed on paper, it has evolved into GIFs, JPEGs and more. NFTs have brought a whole new revolution around the world, bringing huge opportunities to art industries such as painting, photography, graphic design, and even short animation.

In the NFT industry, artists utilize various pieces of art to create unique works of art. Just like there are oils and watercolors, the digital art space is much more nuanced than you might think. Here are some snippets we'll cover.

1. Static art

2. GIFs/Videos

3. Photography

4. Derivative art

static art

and"Photoshopping "and"Painting "The choice of graphic artists, but also of traditional artists, who symbolize physical copies of themselves. Here, we'll take a look at two of the most prominent NFT 'static' artists. Beeple and Pak.

Beeple

Beeple is the pen name of Mike Winkelmann, a South Carolina-based graphic designer with 1.8 million Instagram followers. His artwork has been featured in the Louis Vuitton collection and has been featured in Justin Bieber concerts, but he has no gallery representation in the traditional art world.

Until October 2020, Mike Winkelmann is selling his digital prints for just $100. The first part of Beeple's work, titled "Everyday's - The First 5000 Days", dates from May 1, 2007. For the past 13 years, he has been creating and posting new artworks online every day. His artwork focuses on society's fascination and fear of technology.

The "Every Day" series synthesizes all his works created within 5,000 days into one NFT image.It sold for more than $69 million in March 2021.According to Christie's, the art sale made Beeple"Ranked among the top three living artists". Beeple is now listed on Fortune"NFTy 50 "The most influential person on the list.

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Every Day: The First 5000 Days by Beeple

Beeple's"The First Drop "Another artwork in the series, titled"crossroads", which sold for US$6.6 million on the secondary market of Nifty Gateway. At the October 2020 auction, the original buyer did not know how the artwork would turn out, as the final form depends on the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election. Once the results were finalized, the final artwork was presented — an image of a defeated President Trump lying on the side of the road covered in graffiti.

Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile originally purchased the artwork for $66,666, and it changed hands for 100 times its original price in just four months. He started a digital art collection a year ago and launched the Crypto Art Museum to showcase his growing collection.image description

Crossroads by Beeple

Pak

To date, Pak is a mystery because no one knows who Pak is. Due to Pak's fake identity, the cryptocurrency community even tagged Pak"Crypto Art Satoshi Nakamoto"Tag of.

Pak is a designer best known for creating Archillect. Archillect is an artificial intelligence algorithm that provides unique images featuring floating geometric shapes and tens of thousands of matching cubes. With The Fungible Collection, Pak seeks to challenge the relationship between scarcity and value, while pointing to the future of digital art.

In partnership with Sotheby's and Nifty Gateway, Pak's"The Fungible Collection "Made nearly $10 million in the first 15 minutes of the sale and $16.8 million in 2 days.The most valuable artwork in the series was The Switch, which sold for $1.44 million.

On Nifty Gateway, The Switch is considered a unique,"unique"image description

The Fungible Collection: The Switch by Pak

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The Fungible Collection: The Pixel by Pak

Unlike the Switch, where The Pixel is just a gray square, the Switch includes white and gray three-dimensional graphics on a black background. It aims to demonstrate what it means for NFTs to enter traditional auction houses. The Pixel was later sold at Sotheby's.

In addition to The Fungible Collection, Pak has many other NFT collections such as"The Title". Pak has etched his name into the history of cryptocurrency art and may very well become a household name in the future.

GIFs/Videos

On any NFT marketplace, you'll find tons of GIF and video NFTs for sale. While you're unlikely to find an NFT of an entire movie being tokenized, there are plenty of animations being made into NFTs. Unlike traditional paintings or static digital images, GIFs and videos can incorporate animation and sound, allowing artists to create works that blend visual movement and auditory experiences.

XCOPY

XCOPY is a London-based crypto artist who explores death, utopia and apathy through twisted visual loops. XCOPY participated in the launch of SuperRare in 2018, becoming the second artist ever to issue NFT on the leading platform.

He has minted over 100 NFTs on SuperRare since the platform’s earliest days in 2018. Not only did XCOPY mint NFTs on SuperRare, his artwork also appeared on other platforms such as Nifty Gateway.

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Death Drip by XCOPY

Another GIF work of XCOPY, NGMI, is a 1/1 NFT minted on a custom smart contract, which will determine the color of the work according to the owner's wallet address. XCOPY poses this question:"If we are the bomb, how do we defuse the bomb?"image description

NGMI by XCOPY

Mad Dog Jones

Mad Dog Jones, an Ontario-based artist, also has a Michah Dowbak name. He combines music and art to create works of art that conform to dynamic, adaptive and surreal concepts. His artwork starts out as photographs or drawings of buildings and street signs in urban viscera, which he then morphs into cyberpunk scenes through color and illustration. He has sold 1,567 NFT artworks at an average of $9,063.52 each.

His NFT artwork such as"Crash + burn", which sold for $3.9 million, making headlines for the NFT. Like Beeple, Mad Dog Jones has created artwork for entertainers and musicians such as Maroon 5.

On April 23, 2021, Mad Dog Jones' REPLICATOR (2021) sold for $4.1 million at an auction organized by Philips.image description

REPLICATOR (2021) by Mad Dog Jones

Mad Dog Jones' love for the cyberpunk style prompted him to create the MP4 NFT "Visor". His light and color studies of the face inside a motorcycle helmet in Visor reveal vivid and captivating visuals of a metropolitan aesthetic. In 2016, this Art Edition's No. 1 work was sold at Sotheby's"Natively Digital "image description

Visor by Mad Dog Jones

photography

Image copyright has always been controversial in digital photography. Anyone on the internet can say that this image is his without proof.

There is almost no way for the original creator to prove that the photo was taken by him. As photos are made into NFTs, the authenticity and proof of copyright of these photos can now be verified on the blockchain.

Cath Simard

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#FreeHawaii Photo by Cath Simard

In the end, Simard decided to mint the photo as an NFT on SuperRare and release the right to use the photo to the public after purchase. It was put on auction with a reserve price of 100ETH. A well-known NFT collector, Gmoney, bought this NFT. Now Gmoney can use this photo for any commercial purpose without attributing it to the photographer.

The #FreeHawaii photo is now one of the most famous NFT photos.

Alejandro Cartagena

"50 Carpoolers" is a group of pictures taken by Alejandro Cartagena. These photographs document workers commuting between the suburbs of the Mexican city of Monterrey and the city center. While the photos were captured in 2011 as part of a portfolio of 50, they only became NFTs in July 2021.

The original idea of this work was to show the changes in the environment, economy and population of his hometown.

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Carpoolers #1 by Alejandro Cartagena

derivative art

It is often believed that one must create a work of art, but this assumption could not be further from the truth. In derivative art, the work of art is created by an autonomous system, which means that the work of art does not require any human involvement. This artwork is often inspired by modern art, which involves a lot of geometric shapes. This type of art has been hyped up in the NFT market, and Art Blocks is at the forefront of this field.

Art Blocks Curated

Art Blocks is the first platform that focuses on programmatically creating content on demand, also known as derivative art. Its collection consists of different works by different artists. Some are static images and some are 3D models, but they are all made up of a similar concept: each unique piece is generated on the Ethereum blockchain. Artists create an algorithm or write a script and deploy it on Ethereum that randomly generates a unique piece of content.

"Ringers #879" by artist Dmitri Cherniak has been purchased through OpenSea's secondary market transaction,Priced at 1800ETH, approximately $5.8 million at the time of saleimage description

Ringers #879, Art Blocks Curated

The Fidenza collection by Tyler Hobbs is another collection from Art Blocks.Fidenza is an NFT collection of 999 pieces. Algorithmically generate colored squares and rectangles.image description

Fidenza #313, Art Blocks Curated

worthy of attention

The Everlasting Beautiful

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SSX3LAU

Gunky’s Uprising by SSX3LAU

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Bitcoin Angel

Trevor Jones broke a new record for the most expensive public NFT artwork sold when 4,157 versions of his painting "Bitcoin Angel" sold for $777 each in just 7 minutes on February 25, 2021 out, bringing in a total of more than $3.2 million. Jones also collaborated with Pak on a painting called"The Collision "in conclusion

in conclusion

NFTs are undoubtedly disrupting the entire art industry and have the potential to change the creative industry more broadly. Artistic NFTs give creators more options to show their work to more users on different platforms, and thus have more opportunities to gain attention. Collectors can also exhibit their collections without the need for physical space, while artists can experiment with different mediums. Perhaps NFTs are the next step for artists to further unleash their artistic potential, creating more exotic art forms, whether physical or digital.

Nonetheless, there are still many unanswered questions to be resolved. For example, if NFTs become the mainstream medium of art, what changes will it bring? Will traditional art forms slowly fade away, replaced by JPEGs and GIFs on the blockchain?

There are many uncertainties, but one thing we can be sure of is that art is always evolving. Since ancient times, art has always transcended media. Before 400 AD, there wereCave Paintings, Hieroglyphs, and Greek Sculpture. After that, the Middle Ages and Renaissance ushered in the age of oil painting and poetry. Today, we still retain many traditional art forms, such as painting.

Compilation: Bibabu

definition of art

static art

Beeple

Pak

GIFs/Videos

XCOPY

Mad Dog Jones

photography

Cath Simard

Alejandro Cartagena

derivative art

Art Blocks Curated

worthy of attention

The Everlasting Beautiful

Gunky’s Uprising by SSX3LAU

Bitcoin Angel

in conclusion

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