Sotheby's sells nine 'Grail' NFTs

These some of the rarest NFTs were previously owned by Three Arrows Capital, the same cryptocurrency fund that went into liquidation by court order last summer.

This mini-collection can be purchased this month - the 275-year-old auction house is planning both private sales and auctions in several cities around the world.

For example, Autoglyph #187 by Larva Labs will be auctioned on May 19. Those wishing to own the work can now bid $140,000.

All 9 NFTs were previously virtually unavailable to the open market. Now anyone with sufficient funds can afford them.

Digital art has become an accepted form of collecting, and Sotheby's proves once again that NFT is an art form that has earned its place under the sun.

Too realistic sculpture

Arseniy Zhilyaev's "Dreamer" was removed from the exhibition in 2013 following numerous requests not only from visitors of The State Tretyakov Gallery, but also from museum curators.

People were simply frightened by the "man" lying on the floor 🤗

Dear friends, NFT Metamorphoses collection holders, art lovers!

We continue to talk about the creation of our NFT collection.

Today we are going to start sharing about postproduction, a stage that can put a cross on all the work done before. But first things first!

Depending on the number of looks in a character (from 2 to 5), each shooting day of one character gave us 300-600 photos. Selecting two or three perfect ones among them was one of the most difficult and exhausting stages.

Selecting one character would take a day and a half or two days if we were lucky. But when the meal of choice got tough, the process might take up to three days. Oh, yes, we should add sleepless nights with a "slide show" of photos in our heads...

Hours of arguments, doubts, comparing one photo with another and already finished characters. It was very important to choose images so that the profile was about the same everywhere, otherwise the collectibility would be lost.

An excruciating choice! We struggled to come to a compromise and only left 2-5 character photos, depending on the number of images.

Note that we create any of our designs with the same painstaking, and, literally, meticulousness. No blunders, inaccuracies or unnecessary details! If there is even the slightest deviation from our idea of an ideal image, everything is rejected.

And that's what we'll be talking about next.

Outrage in art is not a modern invention

Actually this kind of epatage and elaborate concept in painters is not a 20th century invention! Artists have liked to shock and amaze and baffle viewers before 😅

For example, back in 1672, Cornelius Gijsbrechts painted The Reverse of a Framed Painting.

The work looks exactly like... The reverse of a painting (a stretcher with a canvas, framed).

And a sheet with the inventory number is drawn on it for full validity 📜

Brilliant? - Brilliant! 🔥

My love and the jewel of Milan - Duomo di Milano

This delightful cathedral is right in the heart of the city, in Cathedral Square.

Despite its incredible size (it ranks fifth in the world), the Duomo looks like a weightless cloud. It owes that airiness to the material it was built from - pink and white marble, which was found not far from Milan. The Duomo seems to fly upwards like a giant kite.

The flamboyant Gothic carved spires further enhance this impression of lightness, of weightlessness. But at the same time they give the cathedral an incredible majesty. It gives us goosebumps...

Most gothic cathedrals are intimidating because of their dark materials, lots of intricate figures and pointed spires. But not in this case!

That's why I adore the Duomo di Milano ❤️

Every time I'm near it, ideas for new works are born in my head🔥
So I highly recommend everyone who is in a creative crisis to visit this magical place.

Katerina Perekopskaya

*video from YouTube

The 18th Biennale Architettura is taking place in Venice. This renowned 2023 architectural festival runs until the end of November.

Friends, if you'll be in Venice during this time, visit the Biennale for sure! It's really mesmerizing 👍

Friends, have you ever wondered what the people depicted in the museum paintings see? 😉

And the famous German cartoonist Gerhard Glück has been concerned with this question. And in 2008 he painted "The Ordinary Day of the Gioconda".

It's pretty realistic, isn't it? 😅

Do you recognise these guys?

Yes, yes, these are the sketches for the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC). The sketches were done by Seneca, an artist of Asian-American descent. And it was her work that formed the basis of one of NFT's most successful collections.

Do you know what inspires Seneca to create her art? She listens to Megadeth, Behemoth and Bullet for My Valentine. Not the most melodic compositions from those guys, huh? 🙃 And she also loves gross-out animation from the 90s.

It doesn't matter what it is that gives birth to some artistic images in your head. Literally anything can inspire! The artist's job is to grasp the idea and spin it through the thread, bring it to a coherent image.

Do not turn your back on your wildest fantasies. Perhaps, you are a talented artist or a commercially successful CEO of NFT-collection 🔥

Write it down, sketch it, try it!

Floral Fusion by Concept2048 in June's L'Officiel China

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Monkey (Devolved) Parliament

The work of that same rebel, Banksy, the acknowledged master of graffiti, an underground art movement.

It was painted for the Bristol Museum in 2009. However, the relevance of this work seems to be eternal...