the below is all instantly recognizable as art.
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Originally posted Tuesday, October 7, 2025 · Archived Feb 28, 2026, 2:25 AM
the below is all instantly recognizable as art. it looks like art, it acts like art.
gay nft is the first memetic art... in context, in form, and in dissemination. it's the first art that is truly the internet.
the works below aren't even comparable.
DagieDee (@DagieDee): I'm gonna be honest, this isn’t really a new language. I’d rather call it a new language within the digital medium. David Salle and others, like some of Wangechi Mutu’s portraits, have been doing similar things on canvas for the past 30 years. And I don’t say that to downplay
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Added Oct 7, 2025, 4:25 PM
To your first point — all the artists you reference were working in the 80s and 90s, shown in galleries, and understood as art within that context.
Second, can you name a single artwork that embodies the internet rather than merely mimics it? They’re very different things.
As for “this language created by combining symbols and images in a similar compositional way” — that’s so broad it could describe almost anything. By that logic, Bacon and Velázquez speak the same language because they both painted Pope Innocent X.
And if we’re talking about lineage, Dada — which visually resembles what you’re calling “gay NFT” — predates the works you mentioned by over 60 years. So the claim that Salle or others “pioneered” this aesthetic doesn’t hold up historically.
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