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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Somebody needs a job.
It will be worth billion, when Big Mac is worth trillion.
With the Government spending like drunken sailor, pretty soon, I guess.
“....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!!! 🤣
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.
The SQRT of 5000 is not an integer.
I got to the nasty President Trump images in time, so I stopped bidding at $57.6 million.
>>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!
“Drugs are bad, mmmkay.”
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.
When I squint at the whole thing, I see a swastika. Not joking.
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!
It turns out you CAN have too much money.l.
Santa clause in bed with a hot brunette... why is he crying? She found another date on tinder?
I think he may be “rounding off”! XD
It looks like the images are not all the same size.
soft porn masquerading as “art”
Looks like he steals a lot of other people’s stuff and just alters it a bit. Nothing original in there at all.
Was this virtual artwork purchased with $69 million of virtual currency?
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