Beeple: Everydays, the First 5000 Days

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Winkelmann was born on 20 June 1981. [8] He grew up in North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. His father worked as an electrical engineer, and his mother worked at a senior center. Winkelmann graduated from Purdue University in 2003 majoring in computer science. [9] Art career [ edit ] "Everydays" [ edit ]

Cuthbertson, Anthony (March 24, 2021). "NFT millionaire Beeple says crypto art is bubble and will 'absolutely go to zero' ". The Independent. Archived from the original on May 14, 2022 . Retrieved January 5, 2022. Winkelmann was inspired by British artist Tom Judd and began the daily project on 1 May 2007. [14] Some of the images involve figures from pop culture, including Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump, and are arranged chronologically. [15] Some of the earlier images are hand-drawn and not computer-produced. [14] Crow, Kelly (April 11, 2022). "The Latest Sign That Beeple Has Truly Arrived: An Exhibit at an Italian Art Museum". Wall Street Journal . Retrieved October 21, 2022.

The project was inspired by Tom Judd, who did a drawing every day for a year. Winkelmann thought it was a beneficial way to sharpen his drawing skills. In the following years, he focused on one skill or medium per year, including Adobe Illustrator in 2012 and Cinema 4D in 2015. Winklemann's works often depict dystopian futures. Frequently, he uses recognizable figures from popular culture or politics to satirize current events. Villa, Angelica (13 October 2021). "A Collecting Category Emerges: How NFTs Took the Art World By Storm". ARTnews.com . Retrieved 9 November 2021. Desk, Coin. "NFT Artist Beeple Opens Digital Art Gallery in Charleston, SC". Markets Insider. Business Insider . Retrieved March 26, 2023. The prints will go on display at Christie's galleries in London, Paris and New York before the October auction. Courtesy Christie's Mike Winkelmann is a graphic designer from Charleston, SC, USA who does a variety of digital artwork including short films, Creative Commons VJ loops, everydays, and VR / AR work.

A CGI Master Made a New Artwork Every Day for 11 Years. Here Are The Results". www.vice.com . Retrieved February 23, 2021. Christie's Auction House Will Now Accept Cryptocurrency". Bloomberg.com. February 18, 2021 . Retrieved February 24, 2021.

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Winkelmann grew up in North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, a town of 5,000 people about an hour outside of Milwaukee. His dad was an electrical engineer; his mother worked at a local senior center. Winkelmann graduated from Purdue in 2003 with a computer-science degree but no artistic training. (He chose the name Beeple after a 1980s toy whose nose lit up in response to light and sound, which was loosely connected to the kind of early art he was making.) Vuitton was hoping to digitally print some of Winkelmann’s art onto a collection that would debut in a runway show at the Louvre. (“I was immediately captured by Beeple’s futuristic universe,” said Ghesquière, who later collaborated with Winkelmann on digital window displays for some of the global Vuitton boutiques. “His work resonates strongly with today’s world.”) Vuitton paid Winkelmann a flat fee, but the artist didn’t believe any of this was real until he was sitting in the Louvre and the first model rounded the corner wearing one of his images across her body. For Christie’s, Beeple composed a mosaic made from his first 5,000 “Everydays”—but no LCD screen will accompany the sale. Unlike the first NFT that Christie’s sold in October—the Robert Alice canvas that happened to come with an NFT—this would be Christie’s first strictly digital piece. In short, an auction house founded in London in 1766 was about to sell a JPEG. Aesthetic judgment is in the eye of the beholder,” Davis said. “We want there to be a dialogue and we want people to see this as worthy of criticism. That means it’s art. If you have a strong opinion about it, it has value. We’re all about giving visibility to this artist who clearly has something provocative to say and is also having a financially meaningful impact.” Beeple's masterwork: the first purely digital artwork offered at Christie's". Christie's . Retrieved May 16, 2021.

Winkelmann started "Everydays," which involved creating a piece of art every day, on May 1, 2007. Since then, he has not missed a day; Winkelmann has discussed keeping it up even on his wedding day and the day of his children's births.

We all felt like we were witnessing history. This is one of the things, in retrospect, where people will say: How did we miss this?”