Welcome to our first edition of The Weekly Canvas, brought to you on Tuesdays by Bitcoin Art Magazine. This newsletter is focused on bitcoin artists, their art and works in progress, current galleries and auctions, conference gallery recaps, art drops on our website and anything else related to the rich, visual world of physical bitcoin art.
LIMITED EDITION ARCHIVAL PRINTS NOW AVAILABLE
“Daddy, What did you do during the monetary revolution?” – Bitcoin Art Magazine Edition
by Yonat Vaks
We recently added a Limited Edition print section to our shop, where we are offering signed and numbered prints by our featured artists.
Our first print was “Exit Fiat, Enter Bitcoin” by Asanoha, and we recently added two wonderful pieces by Yonat Vaks. Here she describes each one:
“Daddy, What did you do during the monetary revolution?” – Bitcoin Art Magazine Edition, Limited Edition of 21
67 cm x 37 cm
Archival Giclée Fine Art Print on Baryta Rag 310, OBA free paper with a satin Baryta surface and natural white base, 100% cotton.
Memes are the art of the internet and have played a pivotal role in Bitcoin adoption. In the spirit of memes, this painting rides on the meme of the WWI recruitment poster that has become well known in Bitcoin circles. The original is a poster by Savile Lumley from the British Parliamentary Recruiting Committee showing a pensive man with his daughter on his lap and a boy playing with toy soldiers at his feet. The poster asks: ‘Daddy, what did you do in the great war?’ The poster was designed and printed by Johnson, Riddle & Co., Ltd., London, S.E., c. 1915
The first version of this piece was painted for the one-of-a-kind Bitcoin history book by Smashtoshi, BIT.. (and) portrayed the story of Hal Finney’s invention – Reusable Proof-of-Work. RPOW was a significant early step in the history of digital cash and was a precursor to Bitcoin.
The piece available here is a meme of a meme of the original poster, now featuring Bitcoin Art Magazine and Bitcoin Trading Cards.
~ Yonat Vaks
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“Yo Mama So F(I)AT” by Yonat Vaks
“Yo Mama So F(I)AT”, Limited Edition of 21
67 cm x 49 cm
Giclée Fine Art Print, enhanced with hand painted acrylic paint brush strokes on Hahnemühle William Turner traditional mould-made watercolor paper, 100% cotton.
This is a limited edition print of the fifth painting in the series – ´They Say Bitcoin is a Joke, but we’ll see who gets the last laugh..´
Bitcoin FUDers have often referred to Bitcoin as being a joke, unworthy of attention. In the spirit of meme culture, these paintings use that statement as leverage. Each painting is a known joke, brought to life with Bitcoin animal memes.
“Yo Mama So F(I)AT” is both a play on a known joke format and a commentary on inflation caused by central banks. The ‘All you can print buffet’ is the favorite restaurant of the big bankers and Yo Mama represents all central banks, wearing their symbols as her necklace.
~ Yonat Vaks
UPCOMING AUCTION
As many of you may know, we are currently collaborating with The Space, in Denver CO, and Scarce City, to host a gallery featuring 14 incredible bitcoin artists. Most of the pieces are available for sale until July 5th.
On July 7th-10th the remaining pieces will go up for auction at scarce.city. Below you can see the amazing variety of talent on display. Please visit the Scarce City link to read more about each piece. It is intriguing to learn all the different ways the artists approach the fascinating task of illuminating bitcoin!
Bank of America in Flames, North Park San Diego by Alex Schaefer
Maquilishuat – fine art print by The Great Print
Satoshi White Paper # 85, Block Height 919994 by CA Danner
Why is Bitcoin difficulty so high? – Limited Edition of 21 – #8/21 by Yonat Vaks
Bitcoin Peace v Fiat War | Quartz D21 v Silver Pentagon by Gareth Eckley
Exit Fiat: Enter Bitcoin – Framed Archival Giclee Print by Asanoha
And that concludes our gallery tour. We hope you enjoyed it and perhaps you are inspired to add one of these fantastic pieces to your bitcoin art collection!
Keep your eye out for our first edition of The Weekly Codex this Thursday, focusing on bitcoin art news and writing, articles, stories about the bright future bitcoin will bring, latest podcast drops, events announcements and more.
Thank you for being on this journey with us. Together we are creating a
brighter future for all our grandchildren.
Onward,
Asanoha
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