VIP Class Notes (Tibo)

Today we focused on:


Discussed NFTs and the auction of Beeple’s work

Speaking exercise

The value of the art is a question of philosophy to push the society’s progress. It is meaningful
art needs meaningful

painting is just to express your feelings
This is just a bunch of paintings to record his progress and his personality.
The value of this collage is meaningful for himself to record his progress for 13 years but for other people they don’t have the same feeling.
They cannot imagine what he had done for this. They just saw the beautiful painting.
Is it worth, for me it isn’t worth it.

Maybe they have the vision that in the future it will have a high value.


The value of the art is a question of philosophy to push the society’s progress. It is meaningful
art needs meaning

A painting is just a way to express your feelings
This is just a bunch of paintings to record his progress and his personality.
The value of this collage is meaningful for himself to record his progress for 13 years but for other people they don’t have the same feeling.
They cannot imagine what he has had done for this. They just see the beautiful painting.
Is it worth it? for me it isn’t worth it.

Maybe they have the vision that in the future it will have a high value./ it will increase in value.

Vocabulary

money laundering (n) 洗钱
He went to jail for money laundering

collage (n) : many pictures put together
This piece is a collage

NFT : Non Fungible Token
NFTs have become popular recently

blockchain (n)区块链
He has ownership of the piece on the blockchain 

fungible (adj) : replaceable 可替代的
Money is fungible.
Art is not fungible

auction (n) 拍卖
I won the auction