Everydays: the First 5000 Days
| Everydays: the First 5000 Days | |
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| Artist | Mike Winkelmann |
| Completion date | 21 February 2021 |
| Medium | Digital (JPEG) |
| Dimensions | 21,069 × 21,069 pixels |
| Owner | Vignesh Sundaresan (MetaKovan) |
Everydays: the First 5000 Days is a digital work of art created by Mike Winkelmann, known professionally as Beeple. The work is a collage of 5000 digital images created by Winkelmann for his Everydays series. Its associated non-fungible token (NFT) was sold for $69.3 million at Christie's in 2021, making it second on the List of most expensive non-fungible tokens.[1][2][3][4]
Everydays was purchased by Singapore-based programmer Vignesh Sundaresan, a cryptocurrency investor[5][6] and the founder of the Metapurse NFT project, also known online by his pseudonym MetaKovan.[7] Sundaresan paid for the artwork using 42,329 Ether.[8]
Sundaresan receives rights to display the artwork, but does not receive copyright. He has displayed the artwork in a digital museum[9] within "the metaverse", which the public can view through a web browser.[10]
Composition[]
Winkelmann was inspired by British artist Tom Judd and began the daily project on 1 May 2007.[11] Some of the images involve figures from pop culture, including Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump, and are arranged chronologically.[12] Some of the earlier images are hand drawn and not computer produced.[11]
In an article published to Artnet, art critic Ben Davis asserted that some of the 5,000 images comprising the work revealed various racial, misogynistic, and homophobic stereotypes.[11] Will Gompertz considered Winkelmann a "talented exponent" of the comic book aesthetic, and compared his work to Hieronymus Bosch and Philip Guston. He predicted that the work would be regarded as "either as the moment before the short-lived cryptoart bubble burst, or as the first chapter in a new story of art".[1]
References[]
- ^ a b Gompertz, Will (13 March 2021). "Everydays: The First 5000 Days - Will Gompertz reviews Beeple's digital work ★★★☆☆". BBC. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ Brown, Abram (11 March 2021). "Beeple NFT Sells For $69.3 Million, Becoming Most-Expensive Ever". Forbes. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ Weiner, Chloee (11 March 2021). "Beeple JPG File Sells For $69 Million, Setting Crypto Art Record". NPR. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ Reyburn, Scott (11 March 2021). "JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as 'NFT Mania' Gathers Pace". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ Villa, Angelica (13 October 2021). "A Collecting Category Emerges: How NFTs Took the Art World By Storm". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
- ^ "Mystery buyer of US$69 million digital artwork reveals his identity". CNA. 19 March 2021. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ Davis, Ben (19 March 2021). "The Buyers of the $69 Million Beeple Reveal Their True Identities—and Say the Purchase Was About Taking a Stand for People of Color". Artnet. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Reyburn, Scott (12 March 2021). "The $69 Million Beeple NFT Was Bought With Cryptocurrency". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ Mak, Aaron (12 March 2021). "We Now Know Who Paid $69.3 Million for a Digital Artwork—Sort Of". Slate. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
- ^ "Virtual museum to be built to house Beeple's record-breaking digital work". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 13 March 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- ^ a b c Davis, Ben (17 March 2021). "I Looked Through All 5,000 Images in Beeple's $69 Million Magnum Opus. What I Found Isn't So Pretty". Artnet. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Mak, Aaron (11 March 2021). "How in the World Did a "Digital Artwork" Sell for $69 Million at Christie's?". Slate. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
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