Art weirdos minting Avant-Gay NFTs on Solana may become the next whales.
A grassroots art movement is emerging that’s pushing NFT culture in a new direction. I believe it will hold tremendous value, be highly coveted, and be studied for years to come. 🧵
So what is Avant-Gay? Still hard to define, but a few things stand out:
- It’s everything the 2021 OpenSea era wasn’t
- Maximalist at its core, chaotic in nature, sometimes graphic
It rebels against and rejects the standard clean, minimal PFP design.
Even the one chain OpenSea disregarded has become its home and birthplace. The movement is entirely DIY, with no big investors and no huge auctions… yet.
I thought Ordinals would take the helm this cycle, but now I’m confident it’s Solana Avant-Gay. Ordinals repackaged the minimal PFP style within a new chain framework. The technical aspect is fresh, but the art itself isn’t unique enough—it feels too derivative overall.
I predict backlash from ETH whales who won’t understand the rapid culture shift. How could an NFT on Solana sell for millions, especially one minted for just 0.05 SOL? And when the art itself is so graphic, so bizarre, so grotesque, yet oddly beautiful too.
Avant-Gay takes the traditional PFP format to its absolute breaking point, jamming so much into the frame while still, somehow, retaining a recognizable character image. Other times it blows up the screen with digital-surreal, nostalgic, gushing traits.
NFTs are in the process of writing their own history. The majority of significant art movements have been transgressive, often defining themselves in opposition to what came before. It is only natural that NFT culture is now following a similar trajectory.
I recommend this thread for more context on the origins of this movement.
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