{"id":11974,"date":"2022-03-03T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11974"},"modified":"2022-03-16T10:28:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T17:28:49","slug":"post-beeple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/03\/03\/post-beeple\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Beeple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Year After Beeple, the NFT Has Changed Artists. Has It Changed Art?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Hardly at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Blake Gopnik<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kevin and Jennifer McCoy with \u201cQuantum Leap,\u201d a recent digital image offered for sale as an NFT, projected in their home studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. When Kevin created one of the first NFTs, it was to help guarantee digital artists an income.\u00a0Credit…Victor Llorente for The New York Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Around 1425, the Florentine artist Masaccio<\/a> painted the first major works in one-point perspective. That revolutionized what artists could do ever after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Paris in 1839, Louis-Jacques-Mand\u00e9 Daguerre<\/a> demonstrated his new photographic invention. It changed the nature of visual representation and museum walls haven\u2019t been the same since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On March 11, 2021, all of one year ago, Mike Winkelmann, whose\u00a0nom d\u2019artiste<\/em>\u00a0is\u00a0Beeple<\/a>, sold a collage of computer illustrations\u00a0for $69 million<\/a>\u00a0simply because that collage came attached to a digital certificate called an NFT. That colossal price launched a mad scramble among creators of all kinds \u2014 illustrators, musicians, photographers, even a few veteran avant-gardists \u2014 to join the NFT gold rush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 12 months since, something like $44 billion has been spent on about six million NFTs, usually issued to certify digital creations but sometimes for physical objects like paintings and sculptures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times One Year After Beeple, the NFT Has Changed Artists. Has It Changed Art? Hardly at all. By\u00a0Blake Gopnik Around 1425, the Florentine artist Masaccio painted the first major works in one-point perspective. That revolutionized what artists could do ever after. In Paris in 1839, Louis-Jacques-Mand\u00e9 Daguerre demonstrated his new photographic invention. It changed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}