Beeple is a concept artist.
Beeple is a concept artist that made $69 million for the sale of one work through Christie’s auction house.
🙃WTF?
Nobody needs to get upset over the term concept artist. During the 90s I investigated becoming a concept artist myself… And I just didn’t fit.
BUT there is no way I would’ve ever predicted a concept artist to have artwork selling at Christie’s… Especially for $69 million!!
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Beeple did not sell his work because he is a concept artist.
He sold his work because:
- he did what he wanted to do
- was passion about it💎
- consistent
- serendipity of getting involved with crypto art= right place, right time.
His work sold, not because he’s a concept artist, BUT because he is a successful crypto artist. He has been selling crypto work for only a few years to a very niche collector base. These collectors are not even traditional art collectors. They are Cryptocurrency Investors.💎
So- one of the most successfully financial artist of our time is not from the fine art world, and not financed by the fine art world.
🐴In the fine art world, Beeple is a dark horse.
So, as an artist do what you want!
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If your work blurs the lines, then keep blurring them! 13 years ago, crypto art didn’t even exist, and hell, concept art is not even seen as a fine art at all…
Giddy up yo!
cheers, Mars