Publisher: Maoqiu Technology
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On March 11, 2021, the NFT work of American graphic designer Beeple was sold at Christies auction house for US$69.3 million (about 450 million yuan)
When I was young, I longed to wake up and become a superman to save the earth every day; when I grew up, I realized that such a thing would never happen in my next life, so I lowered my standards and became an artist!
A gif emoticon package called Rainbow Cat sold for $600,000, Beeples collage pictures were auctioned by Christies for $69 million, and musician Grimes song was fired for $6 million. So are these art?
Andy Warhol once said,"art is what you can escape". interpret this sentence as right"beauty is in the eye of the beholder"first level title
alternative art
What you get for free is never worth money. Digital art has long been undervalued, largely because it is freely available. The arrival of NFTs adds a key factor of scarcity to artists works.
Scarcity explains why baseball card collectors are willing to pay $3.12 million for a cardboard with a photo of legendary Pittsburgh Pirates Honus Wagner, why sneakerheads are obsessed with Nike and Adidas latest limited editions, and why the Pharmaceutical Brothers bought the only copy of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin by the Wu-Tang family for $2 million in 2015.
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The theme is an abstract illustration of black sneakers holding up the sun, priced at $7,088
With the emergence of new things, some people forge ahead, while others hesitate. Faced with the sudden emergence of NFT, one family is happy, but one family is sad. The joy is that as an ordinary person, NFT has narrowed the distance between art and oneself, and it seems that they suddenly discovered that art is not so far away; but for artists, the joy is that they do not need to sell the original works, they just need to publish A few limited-edition electronic works, the income is very considerable.
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Gucci launched the first virtual shoes Gucci Virtual 25, users can buy in APP
You must have eaten potato chips in reality, so what do you think virtual potato chips taste like? Recently, in order to join the NFT craze, Pringles released a limited edition potato chip virtual flavor in the form of NFT. You can see the taste, but you cant taste it, which corresponds to the saying what you cant get is always in turmoil, but here it is more appropriate to change get to taste.
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Pringles launches a CryptoCrisp virtual flavored potato chip on March 18
Everyone has the right to create, sell and collect NFT artwork. Each NFT work starts with a pixel of the photo, which seems to create spaces that are different from each other but closely connected. Taiwanese artist Li Yuanyao released 11 NFT digital works on the NFT auction website.
He is keen on artistic experiments, through the reconstruction of visual pixels, and endlessly pursues new visual languages. In his opinion, joining the NFT wave is not just a simple expression of the gallery function adapting to the transformation of the times, but more importantly, the concept conveyed at the level of consciousness. He has served the worlds leading organizations and important brands, and has executed more than 100 visual design projects. After leaving the advertising circle in 2018, he started his artistic career, focusing on digital visual art.
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Li Yuanyao, full of brilliance, like a dream, like a beautiful ribbon, the rainbow koi of <Overtime Evolution Series>
Artistic conception is the soul of art. Art comes from life, but it is not equal to life. Art and life are in a dialectical relationship. Life is the source of art. Art comes from life and is a reflection of real life. But the life reflected in art can and should be more realistic than reality. Life is higher, more typical, and more ideal.
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Guan Yizhao, Standard Part 1, NFT China Auction Network
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bragging rights
In the era of civilization evolution, food and clothing are no longer a problem, so the spiritual world is particularly important, which requires the emergence of idols, brands, and luxury accessories, as well as high-end packaging, which is an unavoidable path on the road to progress.
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Andrew Benson, Active Gestures 10, $3,049
The development of NFT artworks has surprised the traditional art world. It turns out that art can still be played like this. But for these traditional artists or collectors, this is a new thing, and they cannot be classified into any acceptable belief system. This may be the power of belief.
Many experienced artists in the art world are old antiques over the age of fifty, with no interest or energy to parse the broad language of the Internet. However, after Christies Beeple auction, its rival Sothebys auction house soon announced a partnership with NFT artist Pak, which also shows that some giants in the art world may not understand this new genre, but are still willing to learn its economic potential.
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Star Goddess Shailene Wallace, bid $2,647
NFT, non-replaceable tokens, is widely supported in the field of artworks and collectibles, mainly because NFT is irreplaceable, indivisible, non-tamperable, and unique. When an artwork is cast by NFT, a real artwork It will be permanently recorded on the blockchain, and each NFT artwork is unique and non-replicable.
NFT uses blockchain technology to permanently connect the digital file with its creator, and imprint the holders name forever, so that even if the work is copied, as long as you open your respective digital wallet, you will know who it belongs to and confirm the right Its that simple.
NFT actually existed in 2014, but it was born recently with the rise of the blockchain, but it did not attract the attention of the world until then. It represents real-world objects such as art, music, in-game items, and videos. Therefore, encrypted art has become the most sensational bomb in the art market in the first half of 2021.
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Time Magazine, Is God Dead? , Is Truth Dead? , Is Fiat Dead
This is an exclusive collection of three prescient TIME covers, including one of the most iconic covers in TIME98s history, and the first-ever cover designed specifically as an NFT.
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Surprisingly good
To play art is to play with accidents. Some people say that it is very simple to play NFT, just draw a picture or take a photo and it can be put up for auction. At first glance, it seems to be the same thing. An NFT artwork is nothing more than a picture in JPG format, not just a slight change in the form of art.
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Rainbow Kitty sells for $690,000
God created human beings unintentionally, but artists created NFT unintentionally. For an artist, a good work may not be deliberate, but unintentional. And stepping into the NFT heterogeneous space may not be intentional, it may be caused by the original playfulness of the art creators, purely for fun!
Weiss (pseudonym), who graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, is such an example. Under the tutelage of Huang Xiaoming, a master of Chinese intangible cultural heritage woodcarving, he is a freelance artist who is naturally playful. He likes all kinds of weird paintings, and hopes to create some suggestive and symbolic paintings.
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gatekeeper
The NFT art market is different from the traditional art market. For ordinary people, the traditional art world is full of mystery, high class, and far away. NFT is unconventional, and it cannot be said with certainty whether it is the sublimation or degeneration of art. Those who disagree think that NFT is just a gadget in the popular world, and it will eventually disappear like a white horse.
Some of the immediate critical responses to the NFT and Beeple craze are instructive, suggesting a certain skepticism that contemporary art has about its own cultural value and role in society. As traditional artist Martin Herbert points out, “Cultural moments like these are worth savoring in part because they say something about whether you have a gatekeeper mentality”. He sneered at some traditional artists advocating NFT, thinking that they are unqualified art adherents, that they cannot adhere to perception standards, and are snobs.
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Beeple, VIBE CITY, October 11, 2020 from EVERYDAYS, tribute to the artist
A vault of collective hallucination in which jaded art, recycled pop, bad taste, political spectacle and over-speculation swirl and fuse into modern life. Amid the heated debate over the rise of meme culture represented by NFTs, Spike Magazines Dean Kisick lamented: The old gatekeepers have been out of power for a while now.
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Artist Shin Gorji, a vicious demon, the demon has the right to hunt and kill, wantonly destroying villages
Since everything exists, it has the meaning of existence. We cannot veto it or even make it disappear just because of the impression we have in our consciousness. If thats the case, theres no point in doing anything. The emergence of NFT must have a certain significance. Supporters believe that it makes art less out of reach for ordinary people, and it also changes the consistent view of art: art can only be owned by the upper class.
The essence of art should have no class restrictions. The emergence of NFT predicts that with the development of the times, art will not only serve a few people as before. NFT art is not just a new art medium and ecology, but actually has an established cultural community behind it. It breaks the barriers of time and space and the threshold in the traditional art industry, and has inspired many interesting discussions and exciting creation. Alienbean, who graduated from UCLA, is one such example.
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money or faith
Art and money has always been a sensitive topic. In the history of mankind, there have always been imperial art and slave art dominated by money and rights, and there have also been imperial artists and slave artists for money and rights. Many people think that NFT is nothing more than an operation of capital and a game of money, and compares NFT digital artists to money slave artists.
Differences in positions often lead to differences in viewpoints. It may be difficult to understand that a painting can be auctioned for tens of millions of dollars, and a picture can be sold for 69 million US dollars, but here is a problem. If you have hundreds of millions of assets, you are willing to spend tens of millions of assets to buy a Do you like Qi Baishis paintings?
Here we need to pay attention to the word willing, which is a premise. It’s understandable that none of us want to pay for something we don’t believe in. Willingness and belief, who is the cause and who is the effect, it is difficult to sort out the relationship, of course it may be that the realm has not been reached. However, one thing is certain, regardless of traditional art or NFT art, willingness to collect must be an identification with the artistic conception, implication or connotation of the work, and generate belief.
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People can never grasp everything that is happening or has not happened to them. Many people say that they have no faith, deify their faith, and regard it as a noble thing. On the other hand, they are just ordinary people, so they naturally feel that they have no faith, or to put it bluntly, whether they are worthy of on faith. Traditional art can be said to give full play to this point.
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NFT Jordan digital artwork, priced at 0.77 ETH
Faith is the carrier of dreams. This fan dreams of becoming a basketball superstar. He is also a black man. At that time, discrimination against black Americans was serious. His dream was far blocked by skin discrimination. Jordans success made him pin his dream on Jordan. Body, and later extended to Jordans various fields. Jerseys, sneakers, signatures... to the present NFT artwork.
Faith is that you serve him, sustenance is that he serves you, faith is a kind of spiritual sustenance. The same goes for your relationship with NFTs. NFT and faith meet unexpectedly and resonate. In exploring the fluidity of identity in the virtual age, they create, enhance, and split themselves to become infinite incarnations and create infinite worlds.
