What Makes Great Rare Digital Art?
In a strange new world of blockchain kicks and crypto culture clash, one man stands poised to chug it all.
Rare Digital Art Man by Joe Chiappetta will soon be released as rare digital art in the pixEOS Gallery.
Along with a tribe of talented developers and entrepreneurs, I am part of a team that will soon be launching a rare digital art gallery on the EOS blockchain. It is called The Grand pixEOS Art Gallery. This will be a marketplace where creators of art can monetize their original artwork through a process called tokenization. That means an artist creates unique artwork and through the pixEOS market, uploads it to our online art gallery to be sold in exchange for cryptocurrency.
What art collectors actually buy when selecting rare digital art to collect is a unique cryptocurrency token that is specifically tied to that art image and can be resold on the blockchain and traded as determined by one owner at a time. Limited edition pieces can also be released. Ownership and scarcity is uniquely verifiable on the blockchain. This is a new movement in the arts that goes by a few different names: rare digital art, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and crypto-goods.
In creating such a marketplace/gallery for rare digital art, the EOS community (of course) wants the art therein to be great--or at least really good. Yet there is no singular definition of great art; there never will be. The vast international and cultural diversity in the art community will ensure that not everyone will agree on what is great, or even appropriate. As the old saying goes, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
Nevertheless, I do have in mind what I am looking for in the arts; I want to create a safe, inspiring place where people of all ages can appreciate and collect art without fear of harm or offense. Think of it as an inspiring shelter from the storm of life. Imagine a gallery where you can browse art with your young kids as well as your conservative grandmother and be continuously uplifted. I always appreciate the goal stated in Epidemics, an ancient Greek medical text: "to do good or to do no harm."
Doing good and/or not being harmful is a guiding principle I use in life, and it is also central to how curating art in the pixEOS Gallery will operate. I also believe that such a principle is at the core of what makes for really great, timeless art. To outline this further, below are a few practicals that support such a view of greatness, specifically in this new world of rare digital art.
Recipe for Great Rare Digital Art
- Art that you would actually spend your own money on if you were a budget-conscious collector.
- Art that is one of your best pieces if you had to pick your top ten pieces you ever completed.
- Art that is professionally photographed or scanned (as opposed to a dimly lit pencil drawing taken by a weak cell phone camera where the paper edges are not cropped properly and the white of the page shows up as medium gray tones).
- Art that is at least 1500 pixels wide.
- Art that is uniquely original, where no one else's copyrighted characters or intellectual properties are the main focus.
- Art that has not been--and will not be--tokenized anywhere else.
- Art that complies with the law and upholds to marketplace terms of service.
- Art that gets people thinking deeply, is inspiring, or makes people laugh without being rude, offensive, or discriminatory.
- Art that does not entice people to do evil.
- Art that has a spirit of purity: safe for viewing by children of all ages as well as engaging to adults.
- Art that is accompanied by a thoughtful description and/or title.
- Art that provides solutions--or at least awareness--for important matters.
- Art that communicates truth with grace.
- Art you'd be glad to exhibit in your family's front room.
I am sure there are more traits to mention, but these are just some to ponder for now. Such a place of refuge and insight is where I want to collect art, as well as release artworks of my own.
Together I believe we can all go there!
Joe Chiappetta
http://SillyDaddy.net
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