Still using boring apes as avatars? Try the work of these 8 niche artists

In the past, when we think of niche artists, we may first think of those "impracticalism", but with the multiplication of turnover in the NFT art market, niche artists such as oil painting artist Trevor Jones have entered everyone's vision.

Trevor Jones 的《The Bitcocin Angel》

Inspired by Bernini's sculptures

Created in conjunction with Bitcoin hotspots

Currently, he is the top 3 artist in NFT art sales

Image source: Instagram

Perhaps this NFT boom can make obscure artists more recognized. For ordinary people, in addition to being able to decorate and appreciate works of art, is there really no other practical use?

According to nonfungible.com, the transaction volume in the first quarter of 2022 was close to $8 billion; of that, the trading volume of crypto art was $50 million. An unknown artist may encounter a humble Bole here. Today, I will give you an inventory of some niche artists, while paying attention to their works, maybe you are the next Bó Lè.

Fatima De Juan

Recommended index | ★★★ ☆☆

Fatima De Juan is a Spanish artist, born in Mallorca, and in most of her works, she is a strong female figure with thick arms and rich facial expressions. Bold hairstyles, jumping colors have a sweet and brutal sense of power, and the picture is full of street and futuristic elements.

Nature, exoticism, primitiveness, innocence, fantasy and magic coexist in her personal world through vivid colors and velvety textures. Which do you like better about this sweet and aggressive self-portrait than the boring ape?

Image credit: Fatima De Juan Facebook

Joaquin Lemaitre

Recommended index | ★★★ ☆☆

Nicknamed FORTUNEHUNTER, Joaquin Lemaitre is a typical "engineering man" self-taught artist whose work usually depicts subliminal ideologies, combining elements of real-life pop culture and the natural world to convey his ideas.

Image credit: Joaquin Lemaitre Instagram

Nina Park

Recommended index | ★★★ ☆☆

Nina Park is a Korean illustrator whose work is warm and everyday. The figures in the painting, like most young people, are anxious about an uncertain future, with a pair of large eyes observing their surroundings, but the warm and bright tones can make people feel comfortable. The artist wants to convey that "every young person in the confused period is not alone" resonates and comforts people.

Image source: parkninaa Instagram

08am

Recommended index | ★★★ ☆☆

Also an artist from Korea, 08am in the process of expressing intangible images with visual language, in the purest form from points, lines and then to the plane, highlighting the three-dimensional effect of flat painting.

He also likes street culture, and after experiencing street art and art markets in New York, 08a also tried to integrate his works more into the new model of trend art.

Image credit: 08am Instagram

Jon Burgerman

Recommended index |★★★★☆

Jon Burgerman from the UK is no longer a niche artist, but his little monster colored graffiti is mellow and humorous among mainstream artists. In his opinion, the process of graffiti is an impromptu performance, a fun play with the audience, without so many deep and cumbersome words of inspiration, maybe this is the good mood when you first see his work.

Image credit: Jon Burgerman Instagram

Mr.Rin

Recommended index |★★★★☆

Mr. Rin was born in Tokyo and moved to China in 2011. The style is mostly designed and produced by handwritten illustrations, and the editor pays attention to the fact that he has also recently produced album covers for gentian purple, and he has also produced many album covers around black music (HIPHOP, SOUL, FUNK, REGGAE). In his creation, the concepts of music, sports and fashion are interestingly integrated, like reading a comic.

Image source: misterrin.jp Instagram

Vanilla chi

The recommended index | ★★★★★

Vanilla is good at portraying nostalgic, absurd, illusory Orientalist color works, as a Chinese new era artist, her works are very stunning, with regularity, symmetry, geometry, digital way to pull the vision back to the 90s, many of which are based on East Asian culture as the background, with a faint sadness and Chinese retro, carefully look at each of her paintings, will feel like a stage play.

Image source: vanilla_hchi Instagram

Shuhuaxiong Xiong Shuhua

The recommended index | ★★★★★

Xiong Shuhua Liz, a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York, paints mainly with airbrush electronics. The delicate and highly integrated feeling of the spray gun in her hand depicts something like a sweet dream, and the translucent floating ball gradually swells up and becomes a variety of cute images, as if it is bound by imagination and will be bound outside the picture frame, floating lightly in the air.

Image credit: shuhua.xiong Instagram

When it comes to niche young artists, the first thing we think of may be those foreign artists, but the young artists in China should not be underestimated, they are growing rapidly. Today, both TNFs and social networks are offering a wealth of and astonishing creative talent to the masses, and that's just the beginning. We are willing to discover and share with you more young artists. You are also welcome to recommend artists around you and gather more interesting souls together.

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