8/18/2023 0 Comments Beeple yoink![]() We encourage you to read Davis’s piece in full, where he chronicles Beeple’s creative trajectory and highlights the most problematic images from Everydays. Unfortunately, they come with titles like “if i was one of them fancy-dancy elite art homos i’d call this light study v1.” ![]() ![]() Before the 2016 election, Beeple posted abstract imagery that looks more like Photoshop experiments than anything else. Recent work dabbles in sci fi–inflected political satire-one image, called “Feeding Time,” depicts a robotic Hillary Clinton feeding a baby Trump via a tube from her crotch. But did anyone actually look at Beeple’s work? Ben Davis of Artnet News took an entire day to sift through his archive, and what he found likely won’t age gracefully. This saga bodes well for digital artists who have long felt excluded from the mainstream art world. Thanks to nonstop internet hype and the recent resurgence of crypto, Beeple’s “magnum opus” fetched a staggering $69.3 million at auction. It wouldn’t normally cause much of a stir, but Beeple offered the purely digital work as a non-fungible token through the auction house Christie’s, which accepted cryptocurrency as payment for the first time. Fast forward more than 13 years, and he has amassed an extensive archive of digital imagery that he recently brought together to create Everydays: The First 5,000 Days, a monumental digital collage of these daily images. For the uninitiated, the artist (also known as Mike Winkelmann) posted one original work online every day starting on May 1, 2007. It’s tough to exist on the internet lately without seeing endless headlines about Beeple. Everydays: The First 5,000 Days by Beeple …
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