I assume that being outrageous must be part of what Beeple and the buyer are going for. To that end, I think the most outrageous thing to do would be for Beeple to make another NFT of the same artwork and sell it as the first time that an artwork has been sold for the second time. When that also sells for several million people will go mad.
All 5000 Images in Beeple’s $69M Magnum Opus:What I Found Isn’t So Pretty
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#32I also read that Beeple has shares of the company which bought his art. And artistic works are valued based on their affect to culture. Beeple has none other than this elaborate NTF marketing scheme.
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#33the worst part about arguing the worth of things like this is one side has a strong financial/emotional motive to be hostile and disingenuous. so it’s best not to engage what’s clearly a scam. it’s like trying to tell someone who is in an MLM that it’s a pyramid scheme
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#34I walked away from this thinking the $69M image was much cooler than I expected it to be.
Its like a representation of the artist's whole body of work, ~4000 lower quality sketches progressing into ~1000 in his current style.
I feel like this art critic is not in touch with meme culture. Many of the examples contained were quite striking and interesting, don't find drawings of dicks or naked people particularly shocking or objectionable.
Heck, I'd say his work is more interesting to look at than bowls of fruit and portraits of historical figures.
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#35What's the point of this article? Toddler ranting about disliking the beeple style? I follow him everyday and half the stuff he does makes me cringe and that's a good thing. It makes me question the very simple question of what is art, what is taste, why we even care. All in all, beeple is a terrific artist. If you wanted 5000 Mona Lisa, copy paste its image 5000 times.
As one with no information about Beeple or this artwork other than the headline, I found the article informative. I appreciate someone taking the time to find higher resolution individual images, not to mention attempting to identify themes and styles.
From the article, Beeple’s work doesn’t do much for me, but nor does most other art. My tastes are unrefined and primitive.
But my tastes are completely my own. I am happy for those who get something out of pondering questions like “what is art?” It’s great that you enjoy Beeple. Don’t let this article bum you out.
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#36I walked away from this thinking the $69M image was much cooler than I expected it to be. Its like a representation of the artist's whole body of work, ~4000 lower quality sketches progressing into ~1000 in his current style. I feel like this art critic is not in touch with meme culture. Many of the examples contained were quite striking and interesting, don't find drawings of dicks or naked people particularly shock…
it's not shocking, it's mediocre renditions of things which were common art during the last 15 years and put together, the sum still really isn't worth more than the parts
people are willing to waste untold sums of money to feel sophisticated
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#37I'm not sure I get this point of view. We know that famous artists did random rude and badly-satirical drawings for fun. Their dick drawings were contained in some old notebooks and trashed. But I bet someone would buy a preserved notebook of someone semi-famous with 5000 pages of drawings, mostly regardless of contents. This is pretty much the equivalent of that - daily fun which went to the internet bin rather than…
> What is the article author trying to point out there?
That the artist is not PC enough, so his art must be valueless and he should probably be cancelled.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can tell based on the complete lack of success and following they've had If the world were a perfect meritocracy that would settle it.
I mean discussing this is going to be pointless because art is in the eye of the beholder. The fact that the author didn't even mention what their favorites were of beeple's work indicates pretty clearly to me that they're viewing his collection through a narrow, maybe ivory tower, potentially envious lens of what it means to be a "real artist", and instead they wrote this as a clickbait hit-piece for exposure. The a…
I think the art itself represents the 'ivory tower' in the art world more than this essay about it. Look at the past century in the art world... Duchamp's toilet, 'Piss Christ', Warhol's art films starring cross-dressers and druggies, Carolee Schneemann’s 'Interior Scroll', Maplethorpe's 'golden shower' photos. There's no shocking anyone now. Some Russian artist literally nailed his balls to Red Square a couple years back.
I think there are some decent points in your comment, but on a gut level I figure the author just found some of this artist's examples cringeworthy and I relate a little.
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#39A baseball card is ink on cardboard. Its intrinsic value is a few pennies at most. The value is what it represents, the story behind it (and the stories we tell each other), the rarity, the brand, and so on. A physical collectible is a conversation piece and only has meaning because some people agree it does. An NFT is no different. The more people talk about the Beeple work, analyze it, critique it, teach it in scho…
I think people are just confused. Like, I didn’t know if who Beeple was and after seeing their work I can say it’s pretty offensive. So why is it worth anything? Is it because it’s a great work of art or did somebody with too much money take a gamble on Vaporware?
What about the art offended you?
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#40I'm not sure I get this point of view. We know that famous artists did random rude and badly-satirical drawings for fun. Their dick drawings were contained in some old notebooks and trashed. But I bet someone would buy a preserved notebook of someone semi-famous with 5000 pages of drawings, mostly regardless of contents. This is pretty much the equivalent of that - daily fun which went to the internet bin rather than…
> I'm not sure I get this point of view. I think that Beeple is basically just a rando-tier DeviantArt/Tumblr artist, and much of his art is cringe to boot. Since someone purportedly paid the equivalent of $69 million in ETH for it, it's noteworthy that there's no there there.
They didn't buy the art, they bought an NFT that represents a hash of the file containing all of the art in question.
This doesn't convey any property rights to the art's copyright, unless the purchase also included those separately from the NFT, which, of course, happens all of the time without the NFT silliness and doesn't require NFTs at all.