Scarce City X VESA = Bitram 11/6-13/6!
Get ready for the legendary Scarce City dropping a hot auction with OG artist VESA.

Watch a video on how the artwork was made and what it is all about. It’s the first Bitcoin specific piece VESA has made in a couple years now exclusively on Scarce.City – Youtube link

Watch substance video number two on Youtube

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Imagine this badboy all framed up in your wall and checking out the AR with your peoples.

BitRam at the Swiss Web3 Fest a few days back.

Animal Lore of Bitcoin:

The Bull and Bear is a commonly portrayed symbol in crypto inspired art. VESA took on the challenge to create something new that spoke to the indestructible, unconfiscatable nature of Bitcoin.

Enter Bitram, a symbol of Bitcoin’s relentlessness amidst turbulent societal times.

The original piece comes with a 1/3 physical, hand finished canvas art piece that launches into an AR version via the Artivive app. The Bitram NFT is a highly curated animation of the work.

VESA came among the early artists into crypto in 2017, and has been full time in it since with notable collectors both in crypto and more traditional art realms.

BitRam is another take on the animal lore of Bitcoin, as the ramming of the legacy gates continues as an unstoppable force. The artwork is a 1/3 physical canvas print with acrylic paint on top, that uses the Artivive app to launch its animated pair.

A previous auction with Scarce City ended with a 67K usd bid equivalent GMG winning bid on a similar 1/3 piece:
https://x.com/scarcedotcity/status/1458902984507768836

More about the artist:

https://www.artforcrypto.com/

VESA & Lotta
Crypto & NFT Artist
All links to physical, NFTs, and more below
http://linktr.ee/ArtByVesa

The works of iconic artist Andy Warhol will quickly be accessible as NFTs. Beginning December 4, collectors should buy Warhol’s three-piece fractionalized NFTs on the Cardano blockchain. Miami-based artwork collector and gallery proprietor Rudolf Budja is behind the sale.

At the least three of Warhol’s works are being offered as fractional NFTs. Credit score: Juan Wisniewski | Flickr

Fractional NFTs of Andy Warhol paintings go on sale

The sale of Andy Warhol NFTs will start on December 4 throughout Artwork Basel Miami. To make clear, Budja can be promoting at the very least three Warhol items as a part of the gathering. The three items are a 1982 Campbell Soup display screen print on a t-shirt, a 1980 “Artwork” t-shirt, and a 1977 canvas display screen print of a Volkswagen Beetle. Andy Warhol’s work was beforehand offered as NFTs throughout Binance’s NFT market launch.

Nevertheless, it is very important understand that these NFTs is not going to end in full possession of Warhol’s items. Somewhat, these are fractional NFTs that characterize partial possession. To elucidate, fractional NFTs are a means for collectors to buy high-value items which may in any other case be overpriced.

Budja.io appears to be the place artwork collectors go for fractionalized NFTs of excessive worth artwork items. Credit score: budja.io

Budja.io will use the fractionated NFT mannequin for bodily artwork

The NFTs are on the Cardano community and can be accessible on the market via a brand new NFT market, budja.io. The market is called after Rudolf Budja, the artwork collector behind the platform.

There are 1,000 NFT for every of the three Andy Warhol items. Of those, Budja will promote 499 NFTs for every assortment and hold 501 for themselves. This can enable Budja to maintain a 51% stake within the artworks.

To make sure, fractional NFTs for high-priced avatars like CryptoPunks have develop into more and more well-liked. That mentioned, fractionalized NFTs for conventional artwork can work in a lot the identical means and have nice potential for artwork lovers and would-be collectors.

Binance NFT platform has partnered with The Hermitage – one of the largest museums in the world, to tokenize artworks preserved at the museum. Binance announced yesterday that NFTs will be auctioned on its native marketplace at the end of August 2021. The collaborative NFT project is called, “Your token is kept in the Hermitage”, where the Hermitage will auction a collection of limited edition NFTs with digital copies of masterpieces.

Democratic & Accessible

The NFT collection consists of works such as Madonna Litta (Leonardo da Vinci), Judith (Giorgione), Lilac Bush (Vincent van Gogh), Composition VI (Wassily Kandinsky), Corner of the Garden at Montgeron (Claude Monet). By tokenizing some of the more profound artworks in the world, the Hermitage aims to provide exposure and accessibility, while highlighting the democratic and outward approach of the museum. The Hermitage emphasized the significance of digitization in the present.

Furthermore, the museum announced that each artwork will have two NFT copies. First, shall be stored in the Hermitage, while the second is to be auctioned. All proceeds from the sale will be transferred to The State Hermitage Museum.

Maintaining Uniqueness

To preserve the uniqueness of these artworks, all digital copies will be personally signed by Mikhail Piotrovsky. Additionally, the director of the Hermitage has created an independent work by applying his signature, date, and exact time of signing, to auction one-of-a-kind versions of the masterpieces. The place of signing, the Hermitage building itself, is also saved in the metadata.

“New technologies, in particular blockchain, have opened a new chapter in the development of the art market, led by the ownership and the guarantee of this ownership…This is an important stage in the development of the relationship between person and money, person and thing.”, – said the General Director of the Hermitage Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky.

The NFT market is booming having amassed $2.5 billion in sales in the first two quarters of 2021. Major crypto exchanges including the likes of Binance, Huobi, and several others have launched their respective NFT marketplace in the wake of its soaring popularity.