{"id":505531,"date":"2022-11-01T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/andy-warhol-would-have-loved-or-possibly-hated-nfts\/"},"modified":"2022-11-01T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T14:14:00","slug":"andy-warhol-would-have-loved-or-possibly-hated-nfts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/andy-warhol-would-have-loved-or-possibly-hated-nfts\/","title":{"rendered":"#Andy Warhol would have loved (or possibly hated) NFTs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28a0ff48cd5\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28a0ff48cd5\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/andy-warhol-would-have-loved-or-possibly-hated-nfts\/#%E2%80%9CAndy_Warhol_would_have_loved_or_possibly_hated_NFTs%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Andy Warhol would have loved (or possibly hated) NFTs&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/andy-warhol-would-have-loved-or-possibly-hated-nfts\/#Andy_Warhols_legacy_is_a_nod_to_NFTs\" >Andy Warhols legacy is a nod to NFTs<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/andy-warhol-would-have-loved-or-possibly-hated-nfts\/#For_Warhol_business_was_art\" >For Warhol, business was art<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/andy-warhol-would-have-loved-or-possibly-hated-nfts\/#NFTs_too_commercial_for_Warhol\" >NFTs too commercial for Warhol\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/andy-warhol-would-have-loved-or-possibly-hated-nfts\/#Warhol_loved_to_experiment\" >Warhol loved to experiment<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/andy-warhol-would-have-loved-or-possibly-hated-nfts\/#Warhol_and_computer-generated_art\" >Warhol and computer-generated art<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/andy-warhol-would-have-loved-or-possibly-hated-nfts\/#Art_still_needs_a_connection_to_the_artist\" >Art still needs a connection to the artist<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAndy_Warhol_would_have_loved_or_possibly_hated_NFTs%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Andy Warhol would have loved (or possibly hated) NFTs&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/magazine-HOLS-2-Warhol-and-NFTs-scaled.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"><\/p>\n<pre><code>                &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=\"font-weight: 400\"&gt;If Andy Warhol  the most famous artist of the 20th century  were alive today, he would make NFTs. The reasoning is simple: because for Warhol, &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=\"font-weight: 400\"&gt;business was art&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;span style=\"font-weight: 400\"&gt;. So, I decided to do some digging and speak to Warhol experts to see if there is a case.&lt;\/span&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Warhol was an artist who defies easy definitions, and not everyone was keen to explore the highly speculative nature of the hypothesis. Professor Golan Levin, professor of electronic art at Carnegie Mellon University, said he couldnt help and instead suggested that I ask a Warhol biographer or a psychic medium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fair enough. So, I messaged Warhols renowned biographer, Blake Gopnik, author of<\/span><i> Warhol<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then I found a Warhol psychic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gopnik is an art critic and a regular contributor to The New York Times. Hes the author of <em>Warhol<\/em>, a definitive biography of the pop artist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An internet search determined it was also possible to<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">arrange a seance with Andy Warhol, as part of a Los Angeles tourist experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I put the seance on hold for later. I wouldnt dare dispute the mediums direct line to Warhol  my concern was the psychic might struggle to explain NFTs to Warhol.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Andy_Warhols_legacy_is_a_nod_to_NFTs\"><\/span>Andy Warhols legacy is a nod to NFTs<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/blake-warhol-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Warhol\" class=\"wp-image-13977\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption>Warhol, by Blake Gopnik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gopniks biography of Warhol seemed to posit that money was a means, but provocation was always Warhols end goal. Warhol enjoyed making money to fund all his creative pursuits, but he <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">always<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> sought to be provocative.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, NFTs  which can be both provocative and lucrative  seem like a medium he wouldve embraced.<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a start, Warhols later film and photographic works certainly became increasingly provocative, bordering on pornographic. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Warhol Diaries<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> provide a fascinating insight into pre-woke times and Warhols artistic motivations in the 1980s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Secondly, what is art and whether NFTs are art is not the right question. Thats a minefield. Colborn Bell, founder of the Crypto Museum of Modern Art<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">tells me  mostly, theyre not. Out of the gate, a lot of NFTs arent art. They are really not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A key argument in favor of my pet theory is how Warhol im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely used a new artistic medium whenever available for commercial success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And his work was also not considered art by much of the establishment  he was forced to embrace that reality. Thats a similar position to NFTs in popular culture today. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acclaimed collections from Fidenza<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> call into question the very concept of art and artists. <em>If a computer produces the work, is it even art?<\/em> they question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are many historical parallels.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Warhol-soup.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13981\" \/><figcaption>Warhol transformed the mundane into art <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Warhol was a pioneer in transforming commercial and mundane items like Campbells soup cans into art. He made films, produced early music clips, and even had a TV talk show that ran on MTV in the 1980s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He also produced hundreds of pieces in a well-staffed studio known as The Factory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shunned by art critics  the Museum of Modern Art in New York refused his free donation of a work called Shoe in 1956  Warhol then realized that portraits of people could be very lucrative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lots of different patrons sat for him, but each portrait might exist as only one or two paintings, according to Gopnik. His biggest editions of the Marilyn Monroe prints were of 200 images, and they were never cheap, explains Gopnik.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For comparison, while NFTs can be wholly unique one-of-ones, mints typically number 10,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Warhol painted political leaders, such as Mao and Lenin, (Che Guevara was attributed to him but was a fake painted by his assistant). And he painted celebrities, such as Elvis, Marylin Monroe and Mick Jagger.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Warhol-queen.png\" alt=\"Queens\" class=\"wp-image-13980\" width=\"280\" height=\"358\" \/><figcaption>Reigning Queens was a 1985 <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of 16 silkscreen portraits. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clearly, its easy to presume that Warhol would love NFTs: easily reproduced mass collections on a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a> or a widely recognizable person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And heres the kicker: Those images were Warhols f\u2014 you to the establishment. He was saying, <em>My work is commercial and Im going to sell them<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crypto is, to varying degrees, a big f\u2014 you to the established financial order and the art world. NFTs are a new business model for creators  a speculative one, sure  but a new model for scaling art sales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some highly successful NFT businesses are a modern scalable version of older business models. For example, Moonbirds sought to create a proof mechanism, and its emerging into a kind of studio for creatives. And Bored Yacht Ape Club is arguably a spin on the country club model. They aim to overcome scale limitations faced by those IRL business models, in which NFTs represent a form of club membership and grant owners free entry to events, for example, or the ability to simply hobnob with other club members by virtue of their shared exclusive golden tickets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Im a simple man, $400 watch, $100 shoes, $8,000 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/moonbirds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@moonbirds<\/a> socks.  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ktDDQSrGit\">pic.twitter.com\/ktDDQSrGit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jp Caz (@jp_caz) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jp_caz\/status\/1561456183793242112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"For_Warhol_business_was_art\"><\/span>For Warhol, business was art<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Perhaps Warhols art foreshadowed NFTs because he proved that business itself could be an art form.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, Warhols art proved that business could be an art form. Jon Ippolito, professor of new media at the University of Maine<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">drew the link to NFTs in his blog, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jonippolito.net\/writing\/ippolito_warhol_nfts_preprint_for_mdpi_2022.html\">writing<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Good business is the best art, Warhol claimed. He once insisted that he wanted to sell shares of his company on Wall Street. While Warhol pushed the boundaries of what art is, he also said: Dont think about making art, just get it done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To an extent, Warhol sought to scale the art industry  and thats exactly what NFTs do. So, its easy to imagine Warhol would <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">enjoy pumping out NFTs on a larger scale than Damien Hirst<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-suggest\">\n<div class=\"article-suggest__title display3\">Read also<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-suggest__items\">\n<div class=\"article-suggest__item\">                                                    <span>Features<\/span>                            Meet Dmitry: Co-founder of Ethereum\u2019s creator Vitalik Buterin<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-suggest__item\">                                                    <span>Features<\/span>                            <\/p>\n<p>Building blocks: Gen Y can use tokens to get on the property ladder<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gopnik disputes this idea. The Factory was an ironic nickname for his art studio  he only had one to two assistants. He was <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">playing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at factory production. Warhols output was no more than any other contemporary artist, Gopnik explains to Magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gopnik should know, as he is currently curating an exhibition on Warhols idea of business art. This turn of phrase refers to business as an ironic medium for art making. He says Warhol was simply <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">playing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with the idea. He always wanted to be taken seriously as an artist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NFTs would bore Warhol, thinks Gopnik. He would find it a tired concept by now and be into something else. As evidence, Gopnik notes that in 1962, Warhol painted the 32 Campbells Soup cans as the first steps of a young pop art movement. By 1965, he said he would never do another painting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Warhol would play with business as an art supply, as a way of pretending to be part of that non-art world of commerce: Just watch me. I am a great artist, I can do whatever I want, I can take art to this other domain.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"NFTs_too_commercial_for_Warhol\"><\/span><b>NFTs too commercial for Warhol\u00a0<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While hes a fan of Warhol, Gopnik is not a big fan of NFTs and <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/03\/arts\/design\/nft-art-beeple.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in a March 2021 feature in The New York Times that NFT art simply does not exist. The art is in flipping the NFT for a profit, he wrote. The way NFTs are bought and sold automatically raises issues over the meaning of ownership. He noted that Damien Hirst, one of the first major artists to\u00a0get into NFTs in 2021, ironically called his NFT release The Currency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But isnt that the point? NFTs are a cultural business currency. The ability to scale offers artists the ability to meet consumer demands at many price points.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New &#039;Andy Warhol&#039;s Social Network&#039; Exhibition To Explore the Late Visionary&#039;s Pop-Cultural Works <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AeFXTa4mDM\">https:\/\/t.co\/AeFXTa4mDM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 HYPEBEAST (@HYPEBEAST) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HYPEBEAST\/status\/1564743895816208384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this experimental phase, there is some emerging artistry in the business models derived from NFTs. Establish a community, create some exclusivity, and the buyers will come. NFTs have transcended crypto as a pop culture movement. In 2021, NFTs became cryptos mainstream moment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, Ippolito also believes that NFTs might now be too mainstream for Warhols provocations:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Its also conceivable that Warhol would be happy to see more people making art in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>, and I am, too. But I dont think he would have touched NFTs himself. I see his business-like initiatives as pushing the boundaries of art, not reinforcing a hierarchy.<span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-size: 15px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, if NFTs are not about art but creating an audience for scalable sales, perhaps they are <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">too<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> commercial for Warhol to embrace. I think most NFTs serve a dual purpose: overtly to support those who make art, and covertly to validate cryptocurrencies, Argues Ippolito.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NFTs were arguably designed as a crypto onboarding mechanism, even before they exploded to speculative investors in 2021. As I noted <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">when I tried to value NFT clones<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or derivative NFT projects, the art is in the code for the open-source advocates, as well as the curation of the collection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"subscribe subscribe--inner\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"subscribe__inner\">\n<div class=\"subscribe__content\">\n<div class=\"subscribe__title display2\">Subscribe<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscribe__desc text-l\">The most engaging reads in blockchain. 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Warhol likely would not like to be a tool of a corporation, but perhaps Warhol wouldve taken on Crypto.com or Coinbase as a patron sponsor of his art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He might be interested in the resistance inherent in cryptocurrencies, as a kind of primitive capitalism, says Gopnik, who notes that Warhol was very left-wing and anti-elitist. Perhaps he would have been taken with resistance NFTs used to fundraise the UkraineDAO then<\/span>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The master of Pop-Art, sir Andy Warhol. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/66vQCTxVIn\">pic.twitter.com\/66vQCTxVIn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stoned Pop Originals NFT I BeDoSensei (@BeDoSensei_NFT) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeDoSensei_NFT\/status\/1576946201056116741?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Warhol_loved_to_experiment\"><\/span>Warhol loved to experiment<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Regardless of whether business success was secondary to Warhols goal of pushing artistic boundaries, Gopnik believes the immutable tech would certainly have fascinated Warhol.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gopnik notes that as NFTs preserve deeds, not art history and the celebration of art, Warhol might be interested in that part of the transactional side and playing around with the underlying <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I hate guessing what Warhol would do, but NFTs are terribly nave artistically, so its more credible he would be interested in blockchains.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Its true, most people cant conceive of a long-term price or value for most NFTs. Theyre also so generic in their style, its often hard to remember them, so longevity for particular series or mints is not yet assured. But the tokens immutability (subject to some tech caveats) is assured. That is, after all, the whole idea behind pushing the boundaries of the art and creative industries through NFTs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are hints that Warhol may have loved that blockchains could, in theory, render proof of ownership for eternity. Warhol famously said, The idea is not to live forever; it is to create something that will.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Warhol was always a futurist looking for the next new medium.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/warhol-amiga.png\" alt=\"Amiga\" class=\"wp-image-13984\" \/><figcaption>Andy Warhol, Untitled (Self-Portrait) minted as an NFT in 2021. Source: The Andy Warhol Foundation. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Warhol_and_computer-generated_art\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/span>Warhol and computer-generated art<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In May 2021, the Warhol Foundation auctioned some undiscovered computer-based Warhol originals as NFTs  but not without controversy. The archivist who found the file was<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/market\/andy-warhol-nft-christies-1971474\">outraged<\/a> as they had recreated original files.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Professor Levin, who worked on creating the collection, did not consider them original works by Warhol but were more of a tribute to his experiments. According to Levin, Warhol had been given the second such Amiga computer in existence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The story of Warhol and the early computer is curious, though.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alana Kushnir, an art lawyer and curator, tells Magazine that the first mover for a medium is part of the artistry.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Warhol using an early personal computer to create digital artworks  this is an important historical precursor to artists working with NFTs. Warhol had a connection to NFTs without knowing it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She suggests Warhols overtly commercial focus was way ahead of its time, and he was also happy to form brand partnerships in the 1980s. Art and commerce can intersect in interesting ways, and Warhol knew that. Think about his screen prints of dollar signs from the early 80s  he combined wealth and art in a light-hearted, simplistic way  to attract the masses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kushnir explains, Some artists have a good sense of whats to come and can tune their art practice to address that. Warhol did, for example, have a prophecy that in the future, everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. That came true in the case of reality TV and became even briefer with the advent of social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet she also posits that where the Warhol would love NFTs argument fails is that good artists, like Warhol, are social commentators  they pull back the curtains on the inner workings of contemporary society. Most NFTs dont bother to do that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thats three strikes against my theory from the experts. And theres a final problem in this theoretical discussion<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An old piece, inspired by Andy Warhol  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4lNsg8nlM4\">pic.twitter.com\/4lNsg8nlM4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Khaos  (@NFTKhaos) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFTKhaos\/status\/1575394494228402177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Art_still_needs_a_connection_to_the_artist\"><\/span>Art still needs a connection to the artist<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Returning to the business is art argument, it may be true that crypto has created a new experimental mechanism for commercializing and trading art, including new royalty mechanisms. Warhol wanted to IPO his company, so he may have loved the idea of artists being paid fractional royalties.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But art needs an identifiable artist, and that doesnt always exist with generative art like CryptoPunks or the works of Fidenza<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ippolito doubts any artistic merit of code art. The fundamental difference between pop art and an ERC-721 smart contract is the connection to the artist, he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Its tempting to say algorithmically generated PFP-style images cant have personality, but I do believe the personalities of many artists who use code show up in their work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Its only fitting that Warhol biographer Gopnik gets the last word:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Warhol might be interested in the most ridiculous NFTs  but only once they crashed to $0.99. He liked to undermine the notion of valuable art. He loved anything that was problematic and troublesome. NFTs are that: a problem for the art world and the financial world and the journalistic world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But on the other hand, Warhols work required tremendous novelty and subtlety.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The thing most people dont understand is that he was completely dedicated to the notion of Avant-Garde art. What matters about Warhol is his exceptional complexity and ambiguity. And that makes it very hard to imagine that he would like NFTs now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For me, NFTs, for now, are like trading cards, but Im waiting for an NFT collection so specific to NFTs that it blows my socks off.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And maybe thats the point. 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The reasoning is simple: because for Warhol, &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-weight: 400&#8243;&gt;business was art&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-weight: 400&#8243;&gt;. 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