Despite the skepticism around NFT art in its infancy, non-fungible tokens are being talked about all over the world for the past months: even a child knows what cryptocurrency is, where to buy NFT art and how to mint a digital work.
Today, you can find everything in the NFT market: from virtual land and sports cards to music.
But art plays an equally important role in the NFT market. Hundreds of new users appear on the art marketplaces every day, and more and more artists start experimenting with digital tools.
So if you felt confused when you first opened OpenSea or Rarible, don’t worry – we’ll help you figure it out. The following is a list of NFT artists to look out for.
1. FEWOCiOUS
This young queer crypto artist has every chance of becoming the new Beeple. At least because the fierce demand for his work, which was put up for Christie’s online auction, caused the site of one of the most famous auction houses in the world to fail.
But do not worry, the artist’s work still sold out, in addition, to impressive sums. Today, the fortune of Victor Langlois, better known as FEWOCiOUS, exceeds $18 million.
Afraid To Be Myself by FEWOCiOUS – Source: https://fewocious.com/
There is a lot of talk around FEWoCIOUS today, and not only because of the artist’s outrage and loud sales of his works. 19-year-old Langlois works with a very fragile theme of growing up, capturing his own experience and the emotions associated with that experience.
In his surreal colorful snapshots, the artist reflects on highly personal experiences related to a difficult childhood and awareness of his own gender identity.
2. BOTTO
BOTTO is a duo of man and artificial intelligence, a project in which the community acts as a curator, giving the algorithm a certain number of images, and it, in turn, creates the final work based on them. BOTTO learns very quickly and knows everything about art.
Go Dive | Series 3 | 2021 by BOTTO – Source: https://botto.com/
The algorithm generates hundreds of images each week, and the community votes for the best of them. This artwork later appears on the SuperRare platform. By the way, anyone can become a part of the community cooperating with BOTTO.
3. Matt Kane
Matt’s history as an artist began in a traditional art studio long before he became one of the most interesting generative artists. The artist has developed his own software, with which he creates paintings layer by layer, carefully monitoring the operation of algorithms at each stage.
Unattainable – Variation 1 by Matt Kane – Source: https://mattkane.com/
“I’m interested in exploring historical aesthetics with code; to do with geometry what the great painters did with oils,” says Matt on his website.
4. John Orion Young
John Orion Young, or simply JOY, is a digital sculptor who creates art using virtual reality. What’s more, he designs his own virtual world inhabited by JOY creatures – colorful 3D sculptures that often resemble popular images such as Hello Kitty or Mickey Mouse.
These beings exist as NFT on the Ethereum Blockchain, which means that each sculpture is unique and can be owned only by one person.
Patches by JOY – Source: https://www.joy.world/
5. Snow Yunxue Fu
Snow Yunxue Fu is a New York-based international New Media Artist, Curator, and Assistant Arts Professor in the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
Using topographical computer-rendered images and installations, her practice merges historical, post-photographic, philosophical, and painterly explorations into the universal aesthetic and definitive nature of the techno sublime.
Bask by Snow Yunxue Fu – Source: Digital Art on V-Art