From my last article on cryptoart, I established the founder of the cryptoart art movement as Troy Fearnow(a fine art dealer). He searches for and commissions high level artists to produce fine art paper wallets in limited editions.These prints are then sold to bitcoiners who wish to store their bitcoin safely and show them off in a beautiful way.
He owns fine-art.com and has a database of thousands of artists. He literally searches thousands of websites trying to find the right one. Someone appealing. In his words,"I want the art to be a little anti-establishment, but not offensive. I am a big fan of hyperrealism. When I see people illustrate something that… looks so real, that speaks as fine art to me. I am very selective of the artists who will contribute to this project, and I prefer realism. This project is really a labour of love for me. I don’t want to churn out art, and I have turned some submissions down, unfortunately".
Eventually Troy hired Alexander Fedosov as his first artist. Alexander is a hyper realist,over the years Alexander has contributed a total of five artworks to the cryptoart movement (the patriot,chinese girl, soldier,bobby and nun). 
This is a picture of Alexander fedosov patriot.
This is a picture of Chinese girl. Alexander's artwork was a success, by August 2014 barely a year after the establishment of cryptoart, his artwork was published on bitcoin magazine on the cover of issue 21.In the year 2016,patriot was branded the most costly cryptoart work.
In November 2014,Nina Yankovich a cryptoart artist created fine art with the unique ability to store bitcoin,dogecoin and overcome and buy December,2014 she created cryptoart for litecoin called silver mystique. Other art works of Nina include croup green sleeves, see what tomorrow brings and art shine.
The images above are cryptoart works of Nina.
In November 2015,cryptoart released a new art piece by Christina Hess, it was named "the halving".The circumstances surrounding the mining of bitcoin made Troy give refund warranties to buyers of the halving who used bitcoin as a means of payment(so far these is the only cryptoart work that allows refunds). “ Many people feel like the price of Bitcoin will go up as we approach the event. We don’t want Bitcoin customers to feel like they are missing an opportunity by spending their BTC. This is why we are offering a full refund if Bitcoin reaches a new high. ” says Cryptoart Founder Troy Fearnow. The refund was to be made in terms of bitcoin (1bitcoin will be refunded if you used 1 bitcoin to purchase the halving).
Pasted above are images of the halving.
In October 2016,a new cryptoart edition was released by Alix brawning named "pwned" also in October 2017another artwork by the same artiste was released "21 million bitcoin club"
The images above are photos of Alex Branwyn pwned.
This is the 21 million bitcoin club cryptoart work.
Over the years,a number of art shows have been organised to promote cryptoart, a major one is the proof of art, the bitcoin art show in San Francisco which held in June 2016.The art show was put together by cryptograffiti and was sponsored by coin base and had in attendance Tony Fearnow, coin artist, and Robert Norton, CEO of verisat.
Photos form the art show.
The cryptoart art movement has expanded greatly over the years, another denomination of the movement is the cryptoart puzzles. Coin artist is believed to be the pioneer of this movement.
My next post will be covering the world of cryptoart puzzles. Thanks for viewing my blog.
Image sources: www. cryptoart.com