An article counting ten famous encryption artists in the NFT field

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What is crypto art?

The short answer is that crypto art is a type of digital art that is considered physical art due to the ability to verify ownership of the work. Just like an original painting signed by Picasso can verify its authenticity and ownership, encrypted art can be verified in the same way using NFTs or non-fungible tokens. NFT is a special token on the blockchain, which represents a unique ID and is used to verify the ownership of a work. JPEGs, GIFs, MP4s, and even music can all be minted into NFTs, which prove ownership of the “original” file and are stored on the blockchain.

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Beeple

Beeple, Mike Winkelmann (born June 20, 1981) is an American digital artist, graphic designer and animator, and one of the most famous NFT artists today. He is known for using a variety of mediums to create zany, hallucinatory work that has political and social undertones while using pop culture figures as references. christie's auction house called him"Digital artists at the forefront of NFTs"。

Beeple first came into contact with NFTs in October 2020, and Pak provided him with the first information about selling NFTs."getting Started"course.

In March 2021, Beeple's NFT work "Everydays: The First 5000 Days" was sold on the British auction platform Christie's. In the end, the winning bid for this work was as high as US$69 million. The price ranks third. "Everydays. The first 5000 days" is a combination of Beeple's 13 and a half years of digital pictures.

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Pak

Pak is an anonymous artist, formerly known as Murat Pak. One of the most recognized NFT artists, Pak has over 20 years of experience in design, coding, programming, technology, design and digital art.

At the beginning, many people knew Pak from the artificial intelligence "Archillect" he created. "Archillect" is a compound word of "Archive" and "Intellect". Some visually arresting images are shared on social media platforms including Facebook, connecting creators and audiences. VICE once evaluated "Archillect" as "the most interesting curator".

The Fungible Collection

In March 2021, Charles Stewart, CEO of Sotheby's Auction House, announced on CNBC a partnership with Pak to launch the world's first NFT auction for the auction house with the assistance of the digital sales platform Nifty Gateway.

The NFT series that Pak auctioned at Sotheby's is actually called "The Fungible Collection" (homogeneous series),

During the entire auction period from April 12 to April 14, a total of 23,598 were sold, forming 6,156 NFTs. A total of 3,080 unique buyers bought "The Cube," for a total of $14 million over the three-day period.

Lost Poets

On September 3, 2021, Pak launched an NFT strategy game called Lost Poets, which sold out within 2 hours, selling approximately 58,000 NFTs and generating $70 million in sales.

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Merge

On December 2, 2021, Pak's art project "Merge" will be sold to the public on the famous NFT trading platform Nifty Gateway. 48 hours later, the subscription channel was closed. A total of 312,686 masses were sold in this auction, and 28,983 buyers participated in the purchase of "Merge". It has become the most expensive NFT in the world, and ranks third in the transaction value of works of living artists in the world.

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Justin Blau

One of the few top NFT artists with a strong musical background, Justin Blau is a Las Vegas-based DJ and producer known as 3LAU. Although his background is in the financial industry, his work as a performer is the focus today, 3LAU is a talented trader and early cryptocurrency investor, and has been an outspoken advocate for NFTizing music and building an investable music layer on top of blockchain technology.

The auction of the limited edition music album "Ultraviolet Vinyl NFT Collection" jointly released by 3LAU and Origin Protocol ended, with a total transaction price of more than 11.684 million US dollars. This is the world's first music album NFT.

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Mad Dog Jones

Mad Dog Jones is a visual artist from Canada who draws inspiration from Canada's natural wilderness as well as Japanese animation, sci-fi films and cyberpunk to create a rare, powerful and sometimes considered irreconcilable A fusion of two worlds. His colorful, sci-fi-inspired images depicting natural environments and cityscapes"and"and"dystopia"Famous for his style works.

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All Seeing Seneca

All Seeing Seneca is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and lives in New York. She has a flair for brilliant colours, whimsical designs and lively things. She is known for her work with major corporations such as Banana Republic, The New York Times, and NPR.

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José Delbo

Jose Delbo is an Argentinian-born artist and renowned comic book illustrator. He has worked in DC Comics and Marvel Comics, and his works include classic comics such as "Wonder Woman" and "Transformers".

In January 2020, the superhero MEME Man launched on the MEMENFT platform was written by Jose Delbo. In the second half of 2020, Jose Delbo's comic work "DEATH" officially brought his classic comic style into the encrypted art world.

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Xcopy

Xcopy is an encryption artist based in London. He often shares all kinds of NFT art trends on Twitter. He is extremely active. His works have a very distinctive personal style. He usually "explores" themes such as death, dystopia and indifference with circular and distorted visual effects. Most of the dynamic picture works are mainly skeletons.

CryptoArt.io data shows that after October 2019, Xcopy's works began to be purchased in large numbers.

Xcopy is one of the creators of "First Supper". For the current NFT craze, Xcopy believes that this is due to the artists who are still creating in the bear market. In his view, the future of currency will be cryptocurrency, and the future of art will be encrypted art. He has long been regarded as a pioneer in the field of cryptocurrency art.

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FEWOCiOUS

Fewocious from Las Vegas, whose real name is (Victor Langlois). Just turned 18 in January last year, and is affectionately called "Fewo" by fans. The 18-year-old artist has an incredible 100,000 followers on social media and has sold a staggering 3,189 works. He has a bright, striking, pop-surreal style reminiscent of children's collage art, but with a very definite adult edge.

FEWOCiOUS has been creating art since he was 13 years old, and finally achieved his first breakthrough when he sold his first painting at the age of 17. His NFT art, designed to reflect his inner self, is now the youngest artist ever offered at Christie's. Since entering the NFT field in 2020, his works have earned close to $18 million.

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Trevor Jones

Oil painting artist Trevor Jones is currently the top 3 artist in NFT art sales. His most famous work, "The Bitcoin Angel", was created based on the sculpture of Renaissance artist Bernini and combined with Bitcoin hotspots. The latest auction price is 69.59ETH, equivalent to $188,888. And "Genesis", which was completed in cooperation with another NFT artist Jose Delbo, is as high as 302ETH, which is about US$821,075.75.

Unlike Beeple and Pak, who are famous in the currency circle, Trevor Jones has a more traditional art resume: he was born in a serious art school, studied fine art, and has also been engaged in art charity work for many years. It is not difficult to find from his conversation and the choice of artistic themes that Jones is a well-educated artist.

Trevor Jones decided to become an artist when he was thirty. At that time, he was suffering from depression, standing at the crossroads of life, Trevor Jones was looking for the meaning of life and looking for the direction of life.

"The story sounds so corny now, but

Art is indeed an important reason for me to get out of depression. After working in the art industry, I have never been depressed again. "

Regarding the differences between traditional art and encrypted art, Trevor Jones said that he hopes to be a bridge between the two art worlds

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"The Architect "Satoshi Nakamoto" (creator "Nakamoto Satoshi")"

Borrowing from an unknown artist, he stepped into the encryption field, and finally met Bole, whom he had never met before, and ushered in several tens of millions of dollars in transactions in his life. In the cruel real world, it is always a default for outstanding artists to be buried; at the same time, the encryption technology behind the encryption art community provides copyright protection for the co-creation agreement between artists. Not only that, but the copyright mechanism of artworks can bring sustainable income to each creator. In this kind of incentive, the encrypted art community will continue to grow.

However, in the parallel time and space of the metaverse, the digital artists who "turned out" gained attention and appreciation. Although the level of most of them can only be regarded as mediocre at best, but if you think about it, is this not a turnaround for traditional artists?