Beeple

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Beeple is an American digital artist, graphic designer, and animator, known for using various mediums in creating comical, illusive works that makes political, social commentary while using pop culture figures as references.

Beeple sold a piece of work for $69 million called ‘The First 5000 Days’. It is a collage of his work starting at the beginning of his project over 13 years. This sale positions him “among the top three most valuable living artists”, according to the place his NFT was auctioned at. Vignesh Sundaresan, known to the cryptocurrency community as ‘MetaKovan’, purchased his NFT.

Beeple says – ” I do view this as the next chapter of art history”

Beeple’s work has become so popular and valuable due to his large fan base of 2.5 million followers across social media platforms.

Grimes

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In her NFT’s, she explores the theme of Anthropocene, this is where relating to the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.

Grimes made a video called ‘Delete Forever’. The video includes a queen counting jewels as the world burns around her

Grimes has sold $6 million worth of digital artworks as NFT’s. She auctioned her WarNymph digital collection featuring a total of 10 artworks created in collaboration with her brother Mac Boucher on a platform named Nifty Gateway. – “This past year, grimes put a piece of her soul up for sale, and developed her ‘WarNymph’ avatar, a completely digital version of herself. “- Gateway. Some digital artworks in the WarNymph collection by Grimes were accompanied by exclusive music created by the artist herself: ‘earth’ features the unreleased Æryth, ‘mars’ has its own mars theme, and ‘death of the old’ carries a demo of anhedonia. The collection was divided into seven limited editions and two open editions – ‘earth’ and ‘mars’ which sold around 700 copies for USD $7,500 each.