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I Looked Through All 5,000 Images in Beeple’s $69 Million Magnum Opus. What I Found Isn’t So Pretty
ArtNet ^ | 3/17/2021 | Ben Davius

Posted on 03/21/2021 2:46:20 PM PDT by simpson96

“We didn’t need a preview.” So said Twobadour, one of the players behind the purchase of the all-digital work by artist Beeple (aka Charleston-based digital artist Mike Winkelmann) at Christie’s last week, when asked if he had actually looked at the lot before his company paid $69 million for it.

Despite this stomach-turning auction price, Twobadour claimed that the investment was destined to appreciate in value into the future: “This is going to be a billion-dollar piece someday.”

I’ll take his word for it that he knows Beeple’s oeuvre so well that he didn’t need to review all the images contained in Everydays: The First 5,000 Days. But does the public know what’s in Beeple’s opus? That’s likely to determine the piece’s reputation in the medium and long term, as observers and a baffled public wrestle with what the Beeple phenomenon really means.

The work is, in effect, a large, square image file (21,069 by 21,069 pixels). It’s a digital mosaic composed of images that Beeple has released on the web, one a day, since May 1, 2007.

You can zoom in a bit to the tiled image of Everydays on the Christie’s site—but not that much. To really see the works and get a sense of Beeple’s vision, you have to go to his website. I went and clicked through all 13 years of work. Going through it all took about a day.

Here’s what I found. Essentially, there are four different Beeples at play in Everydays. None is likely to age well.(snip)

I’ve said that the Trump-is-a-Poopy-Head/Cheeto Mussolini genre of art that flourished in this time period is going to have the shelf life of Taco Bell leftovers.


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Other Trump-hating images are reproduced in the article - too gross to post.
1 posted on 03/21/2021 2:46:20 PM PDT by simpson96
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I Looked Through All 5,000 Images

Somebody needs a job.

2 posted on 03/21/2021 2:51:36 PM PDT by humblegunner (Balls To Picasso.)
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To: simpson96

It will be worth billion, when Big Mac is worth trillion.
With the Government spending like drunken sailor, pretty soon, I guess.


3 posted on 03/21/2021 2:52:44 PM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIs)
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To: simpson96

“....I’ve said that the Trump-is-a-Poopy-Head/Cheeto Mussolini genre of art that flourished in this time period is going to have the shelf life of Taco Bell leftovers.....”

HAHAHA!!! 🤣


4 posted on 03/21/2021 2:53:38 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: simpson96

What more can we say?

The product of a degraded culture being bid up to outrageous values due to a degraded currency?

Its absolutely true, but we’ve been saying this for decades it seems.


5 posted on 03/21/2021 2:54:59 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: simpson96

The SQRT of 5000 is not an integer.


6 posted on 03/21/2021 3:01:17 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: simpson96

I got to the nasty President Trump images in time, so I stopped bidding at $57.6 million.


7 posted on 03/21/2021 3:02:07 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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8 posted on 03/21/2021 3:05:05 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: AZJeep

>>It will be worth billion, when Big Mac is worth trillion.<<

My 2006 Franklin Mint Star Trek 40th Anniversary Commemorative plates must be worth a BUNDLE now!

I was told they would appreciate geometrically over the years.

I also purchased an offer made only available late at night from the Official National Collectors Mint for only $9.95 each for GOLD BUFFALO COINS with CERTIFICATES OF AUTHENTICITY!

Thanks to my shrewd collectors’ items my retirement should be EASY SAILING!


9 posted on 03/21/2021 3:05:13 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (No matter what, resist and stop the agenda of blow bidet and hairass the whore)
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To: SkyDancer

“Drugs are bad, mmmkay.”


10 posted on 03/21/2021 3:19:07 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: freedumb2003

Unfortunately my senior citizen father bought a bunch of silver coins for god knows how much.

At least they ARE silver like investor grade silver but the premium he paid for their “collectors” value is very questionable.


11 posted on 03/21/2021 3:23:21 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark (There is no one more racist than a white liberal.)
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To: simpson96

When I squint at the whole thing, I see a swastika. Not joking.


12 posted on 03/21/2021 3:23:27 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: simpson96

Just in case you were under the delusion that people of great wealth are smarter than others. This should put that thought to a rest!


13 posted on 03/21/2021 3:27:10 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign! )
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It turns out you CAN have too much money.l.


14 posted on 03/21/2021 3:39:13 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: simpson96

Santa clause in bed with a hot brunette... why is he crying? She found another date on tinder?


15 posted on 03/21/2021 3:46:36 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Paladin2

I think he may be “rounding off”! XD


16 posted on 03/21/2021 3:59:15 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Paladin2
The SQRT of 5000 is not an integer.

It looks like the images are not all the same size.

17 posted on 03/21/2021 4:08:05 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: simpson96

soft porn masquerading as “art”


18 posted on 03/21/2021 4:11:46 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: simpson96

Looks like he steals a lot of other people’s stuff and just alters it a bit. Nothing original in there at all.


19 posted on 03/21/2021 4:13:57 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: simpson96

Was this virtual artwork purchased with $69 million of virtual currency?


20 posted on 03/21/2021 4:24:29 PM PDT by zeestephen
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