If only Vince had used the blockchain
If Vince would have minted the painting to the blockchain, we wouldn’t need a team of art detectives squinting at brushstrokes for months—we could’ve verified this in five minutes!
During his year-long stay in a French asylum, Vincent van Gogh churned out about 150 paintings, including Irises and The Starry Night. He also dabbled in what he called “translations”—his colorful takes on other artists’ works. In a letter to his brother Theo, he insisted he wasn’t just copying but “translating into another language, the one of colors.”
Fast forward a century, and experts now believe they’ve found one of these long-lost “translations”: an oil portrait of a ruddy-cheeked fisherman, casually rescued from garage sale obscurity in Minnesota for less than 50 bucks. If only NFTs existed in 1889, we’d have a neat little token proving its authenticity instead of an art world scavenger hunt.
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