All 5000 Images in Beeple’s $69M Magnum Opus:What I Found Isn’t So Pretty
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#2Only in 2021 can a man go from art sensation to what appears to be on his way to being cancelled inn like 3 days.
I don't care, personally, but man oh man this year isn't gonna be much more normal than last.
I actually think it's interesting to see his advances in skill, not bad for effectively a satire artist.
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#3Didn't it come out that there was some pre-existing commercial relationship between buyer and seller? Was this a real transaction?
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#4In case anyone missed it, the artist was also double-dipping on the sale: https://amycastor.com/2021/03/14/metakovan-the-mystery-beepl...
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#5"We didn't need a preview": the content of the art isn't important. Like most NFTs, it's just a url that you can sign a hash of for dollars.
What's more interesting is the allegation that this is "tape painting": sold to an accomplice for the purpose of promoting the NFT "art" market.
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#6Didn't it come out that there was some pre-existing commercial relationship between buyer and seller? Was this a real transaction?
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#7Long after we’re all dead this work will be reviewed by historians for it’s significance. Mocked by present day critics, reviled by many. Nonetheless a curated work that defined the times that we lived through, in a series of pictures.
He’s an Artist. It’s his chosen vector of expression.
Leave him be.
His work will be discussed long after we’ve become worm farmers.
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#8A 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 schools, write about it on websites, the more its legend and cachet will grow. That is why it has value - it represents the same things the baseball card does. Except an NFT can trade and move much quicker, given the internet and its digital nature.
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#9I'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 real one.
Some examples are really reaching too: "it’s fun to draw black people" - what is it an example for? What is the article author trying to point out there?
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#10What'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.