Due to the continuously growth of the advancement of technologies, arts industries and artfields are also improving. New types of arts are also appeared created by these advance technologies and genius creators.
When a cryptocurrencies boomed, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) was followed. And there it is, a CrypotPunks was born and introduced. The fact that they are being sold with a high prices. A million prices to be exact.
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Now let's go back to the question. What are blockchain arts?
"Blockchain art or CryptoArts are digital tokens or arts tied to an artwork using blockchain technology, including details regarding provenance and authenticity of artwork. Blockchain introduces what is termed as “digital scarcity”, involving issuing a limited number of copies of an artwork with a unique token (a unique string of numbers that can be used as a digital representation of a physical asset)."
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Now check this image below;
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CryptoPunks are the origin of NFTs right? Or let's say they introduced the NFTs to the world since they created historical record. And look what is the results? New NFTs are born and pushed high companies to create marketplaces for it.
As we mentioned above that, this image are considered as arts ,digital arts or CryptoArts to be exact.Noe let's answer the questions in the queue. Why these arts are unique? Is there something special from them? The fact that, I can just easily download them buy clicking my "Save as " option in my browser? XD How these arts become unique compare to real-world artworks?
Let's do some little comparison;
The Monalisa famous painting and CryptoPunk #7804 also know as "Digital Monalisa".
If you compare these two artworks, it seems like they have huge gap to be honest when it comes the quality and effort applied in that arts right? Obviously, you can clearly see it by just observing these two.
CryptoPunk alien #7804 [bottom image]was sold for $ 7.5 million and new comers in these kind of topics will be shocked on how and why this simple art was sold by that kind of huge amount. You can read my article why CryptoPunks Was Expensively Sold for some other understanding about CrypotPunks only.
The "Save As and Screenshot" Issue
This is an example of crypotarts marketplace also known as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Where you can buy and sell these images. New comers will confidently say , Hmmm.. "Why Spend and waste my bucks on it if I can just download it or just make a screenshot direct to my gallery?".
Well of course, you can easily download it and make a copy of your own. But how about the authenticity? There plenty of facts why CryptoArts are unique and different compared to these real-world artwork, or jpeg and PNGs that you can download somewhere in the internet.
#1 CryptoArts Are Fully Sealed With Information
Since these arts are only existing in the internet and can be accessed by many users who have internet access and can easily download it, it doesn't mean that you already owned it the things aren't simple as that.
CryptoArts are all stored in the place called 'Blockchain'. Every single images has their own unique IDs that represents them. Another thing if you buy each of them, there are validation things happened in the blockchain which means , if you buy one cryptoArt in the marketplace. There are transactions histories created on where you send or sell that specific cryptoart or NFT.
Basically, if you just downloaded it somewhere, you just own the copy and the Jpeg or PNG file of it only. That's not authentic.
#2 Some Of Them Are AI Generated
AI generated images are one of the competitive image arts in the NFTs-space. In fact, CryptoPunks as the first NFTs are AI generated. Just imagine an AI or programmed software can create a tones of creative images. What make them unique is that, they are products of bunch lines of codes and created a masterpiece arts like the famous painter Vincent Van Gogh. The best example for this is the generative adversarial network or GAN in artificial intelligence.
#3 They Are Dank
If you seen Van Gogh's paintings, they are unique and made with full of efforts isn't it? Well CryptoArts usually created opposite with these masterpiece. Cryptoarts usually created as memes or dankmemes. They are from trends and with uniqueness. Actually the are too unique. Some of them are edited extensively, blurry , more color adjustments , low quality images or pixelated.
#4 Made With Freedom
In the cryptoArts world, there is no specific status and skills of the artists. I mean, anyone can create their own CryptoArts and mint it every marketplaces. The quality of the artworks is not matter here as long as you can create your own CryptoArts wether it is dank memes or high quality cryptoarts.
#5You Can Earn From It
Since CryptoArts are published digitally, anyone has the previledge to own atleast one of it. The choice will be, you have to buy it or sell it. Something like buy with a low price and sell it with the high price. Or just wait for the drops and free faucets. Lol
#6 They are stored Digitally
You don't need to hang them in your walls like paintings in canvas or make them as designs in your bedroom. CryptoArts are digital stored and you can just store them in your wallets or put them in your devices.
#7 They Can Work As Currencies
CryptoArts are blockchain powered like cryptocurrencies. So, you can trade them using other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin Cash or Ethereum or trade them using the other CryptoArts too.
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very informative