25 Mar, 2022|PRODUCT NEWS

Meet the Artists Behind The Art of Giving Collection

The Art of Giving is a special collection that aims to raise aid for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (RCRC).

The Art of Giving is a special collection that aims to raise aid for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (RCRC). This exclusive collection features artworks by Crypto.com and 33 artists, where 100% of the primary sale proceeds from the drop will be transferred to the RCRC in support of the victims of the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.

In these perilous times, it comes as no surprise that several of the artists have chosen to convey messages of love, hope, and peace in the art pieces they have gifted for this cause.

Psychedelic artist Ugonzo Art created customised PsychoMolly #Peace and PsychoKitty #Peace specially for this collection, and both are bearing the words on their outfits. Before experimenting with NFTs, Ugonzo earned a reputation for his surreal murals and trippy pop culture portraits – garnering a 100,000-plus social media after gaining celebrity attention.

The same message is also sent by the AlphaPeace collectible, a sentient robot designed by accomplished 3D artist Travis Ragsdale who has been making 3D art and animation for nearly 15 years. “The primary inspiration behind this AlphaBot was peace and unity. We are all one human species and we should stick together to help lift others up. We believe that if we are in a position to help people in need, then we should do so, to the best of our ability. Our heart goes out to all of those affected by this, and we are hopeful that if we all work together, we can make a real difference in the lives of all the people in need,” the artist shared.

Ali Jardine, a pioneer of iPhone art who gifted the hope+feather art piece shared that “Peace, freedom, hope, and love inspired this piece.” Other art pieces in the collection that reflect the same theme of peace and love include the Serenity Lion by Crypto.com, Red Sun by Fran Rodriguez, and A Ray of Sunshine by Rank SSS.

We spoke with some of the artists about their work and there is a common motif–using the power of art to spread positivity while supporting those in need.

“With the rising tide of destruction sweeping the world, we tend to feel powerless. And this feeling becomes overwhelming if we don’t see the opposite happening: a creative wave that transforms the world. We, creative people, can collaborate for balance and hope, and it is our duty to continue creating and seeking to bring some kind of light that opposes the chaos of our days.”
Igor Martins, creator of Bonds NFT

“Helping people can be done in multiple ways and I’m convinced art is one of them. Through this drop, I wanted to give my support alongside other great artists with one of my art pieces.”
Senbenito, creator of Retro Gaming NFT

“I am trying to do something, in my small way, about this heartbreaking situation. In my day-to-day life I am a healthcare professional and I know what it is like to suffer for someone you love or something you care about. As in my work I am making myself available for refugees who have come to my city, having the opportunity to be able to do something as an artist as well seems natural.”
Neontenic, creator of Neon Prince NFT

“Innocent people are needlessly suffering and if there’s any way to help, we have to try. It’s more than money, it’s support and ultimately love, and these times highlight our need to overflow with love when there’s clearly overflowings of the opposite spilling through the streets of homes just like the ones we live in.”
Koanye, creator of HALO NFT

Find out more about the artists and the pieces that will be part of this drop below.

Artist Name	About the Artist	Name of NFT(s)
Adrian Rosco	A digital artist with a love for fantasy and all things space related.	Victory Aura Nίke
Ali Jardine	A pioneer of iPhone art, Ali was one of the first artists to utilise Instagram’s platform and her work has hung in galleries worldwide. Let Ali take you on a trip to her personal Wonderland.	hope + feathers
Ari Hersch	A self-taught artist born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Hersch has received multiple awards and accolades on various architectural and design projects. His style, subject choice and works are heavily influenced by artists such as Gerard Sekoto, George Pemba and Ben Macala.	S.O.S
BIIMO	BIIMO is an anonymous Georgian multimedia artist aiming to critically analyse events and get people out of their comfort zone. Their works are mainly about the issues concerning equality, human freedom, identity, and understanding of who we are.	SURVIVORS
Buba Viedma	Buba Viedma is an illustrator and graphic designer born in Madrid. She grew up in a neighborhood where going out after sunset meant going home barefoot, so it was much more practical to stay at home watching cartoons, reading, and, of course, drawing.	El Puente
Caitlyn Grabenstein	Caitlyn Grabenstein (@cult.class) is a collage artist who specialises in her own, individual style of surreal, vintage, and sci-fi themes. Caitlyn first started making collages while creating tour posters for her charitable business, BANDADE, an organisation that brought together musicians to support cancer research.	Fast Car
Carles Marsal	Carles Marsal is a Visual Artist and Art Director, creating Digital Art projects worldwide. His work combines all kinds of digital techniques in which he explores and experiments to recreate complex worlds and abstract concepts.	Infinity
Crypto.com	Crypto.com is on a mission to accelerate the world’s transition to cryptocurrency. Founded in 2016 on a simple belief: it’s a basic human right for everyone to have full control of their money, data, and identity.	Serenity Lion
Enchanted Future	With unique 3D artwork that explores the interplay between the real and imaginary worlds, Enchanted Future’s fascinating depictions are a fitting metaphor for NFT artwork – where the traditionally distinct boundaries between digital and physical objects are being continually redrawn.	Goddess Of The Known Goddess Of The Unknown
Fran Rodriguez	A digital artist based in Barcelona,he was attracted by surrealism and psychedelia since he was a child. He experimented with painting and graphic design in his teenage years until he discovered digital collage, the medium that has led him to become one of the main names in the international collage scene.	Red Sun
Igor Martins	Igor Martins is a Brazilian digital artist trained in classical oil painting. He is the founder and co-director of UP Studio, an awarded Motion and Visual Effects studio and a coordinator of creative teams in projects for major global brands.	Bonds
Jewelry cryptoart	A Brazilian born in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil and based in Aix-les-Bains in France. A jewelry designer and 3D modeler in the architecture and design domain. His goal is to bring his knowledge of creating jewelry art into the blockchain. Because design never ends.	Follow my Colors Follow my Heart
Koanye	Koanye is a 3D artist living and creating in the Blue Mountains, Australia. Inspired by Nature and the surreal beings within it, Koanye fuses alien worlds with our ‘normal’ world to reveal an infinitely expanding universe of weird and wild creations.	HALO
Lord	Lord Neutron is a Brazilian artist specialising in 3D compositing and animation. Many of his works, several of which are already in the hands of prestigious collectors of the cryptoart scene, explore the universe of the magical, the mystical, and the esoteric.	Dynamic Cosmos
Lucas León	Lucas is a professional illustrator and full-time NFT Artist from Villa Alemana, Chile. His surrealism combines a technique of analog drawing and pointillism, with digital painting. His inspirations are philosophy, psychoanalysis, and deep meditations about our existence.	Oneself The weight of existence
Machado Leao	Machado Leão is a Brazilian digital artist working for the music industry since 2019. Currently with over 50k followers on his Instagram, he uses his engagement to discover and release new art every day.	The Lost Temple
Melissa Vincent	Melissa Vincent is a self-taught artist based in Oxford, Mississippi. She has created dream-like visuals born from her Southern roots on an iPhone since 2011.	Come On Home
Natacha Einat	Natacha Einat is a digital artist based in Paris who works in partnership with Adobe. She creates visual metaphors in deep harmony with nature, to convey emotion and communicate meaning. Obsessed with growth, she is constantly learning to see things in a new perspective, each artwork an adventure.	Hope
Neontenic	Neontenic, Valerio from Italy in real life, creates sounds for retrofuture dreams. He started very young as a pianist, and has been making electronic music since 2008. In 2018 he decided to dedicate himself totally to synthwave/cyberpunk music and to take on the new Neontenic identity.	Neon Prince
newk3d	Newk3d is a Norwegian 3D artist with a passion for digital art and creating in general. His style consists of flashy iridescent metals that catch the eye. He is influenced by a wide array of topics, from fantasy to cyberpunk.	Iridescent Touch
Nibera	Nibera is an interdisciplinary visual artist transcending the borders of fine art photography, graphic art, and design. Based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, her images simultaneously reveal the beauty of our world and explore the surreal ideas of an alternate reality.	Sleep Walker
Noelia Lozano	Noelia Lozano is a creative image maker and art director from Spain. Her work is focused on papercrafts, CGI and set design – often combining these different techniques and materials to create boldly visual and colourful tactile imagery in 3D. With an emphasis on process, she loves highlighting textures, colour, light, shadows, and shapes.	Lumen spei
ONEFALLART	Onefallart is a self-taught digital artist and music maker. His artworks are inspired by his education in psychology.His art is not meant to give you a sense of comfort. It is to challenge you to see something more than the simplicity and repetitiveness in the expression of feelings.His artworks are overwhelming in detail, but in all this chaos, nothing is accidental, and everything adds up to a unique whole, like a beautiful disorder.	K_N6MAA10816
OSCAR LLORENS	Multidisciplinary artist with a surrealist style and a touch of nostalgia. Exhibited in NY, London, Madrid, Paris, Tainan, HK, and collaborated with Coke, the Washington Post, and the United Nations.	Peace / Please
RANK SSS	Architect in the bioclimatic field, 3D artist, motion designer, swimmer.Inspired by the green and the blue, they like to combine their passion for space with nature to create strange universes.	A Ray of Sunshine
Senbenito	Senbenito is a French cyberpunk and infrared photographer. He shares his love for retrowave aesthetics and Japan through photography and experiments new things by creating NFT.	Retro Gaming
skiegraphicstudio	The Skie graphic Studio project was born in 2007, in Rome/Italy. I am a freelancer passionate about art, graphics and web design. I am focused on dystopian environments, futuristic but crumbling cities, and my main hallmark are neon lights and a nod to the 80s and 90s.	Magic Woods
SofiaClonn	Creator of surreal landscapes and journeys through images and music. Sofia Clonn’s exploration of the mind is illustrated on the concept project Nagó. In Nagó, the surreal world of the mind, dreams and memories blend with elements of reality resulting in something deeper than an image: a feeling or sense or abstract thought.	Closer
The Bandana Boi	A self-taught multi-disciplinary artist who is currently working in 3D and AR. Chaos and hatred around him made him realise that there is a need for love and compassion, and that’s what his art seeks to accomplish.	Melting Crown
Travis Ragsdale	Travis Ragsdale is a 3D artist based in Dallas, TX who loves vibrant colours and satisfying loops. Passionate about 3D art and lover of the NFT community, he has worked with clients such as Callaway Golf, Jagermeister, Pabst blue ribbon, Adobe, google, Facebook, hot wheels, and more.	AlphaPeace
2J sTARY	2J sTARY is an artist from another planet in a different galaxy. After arriving on the Earth, he settled in the capital of nothing. He specialises in 3D animation. His art shows in a funny way what surrounds him on a daily basis. His distinctive and colourful compositions contrast with the theme of his works, which are often simply disgusting and repulsive.	Sweeth
Ugonzo Art	Ugonzo Art is a psychedelic artist who has been commissioned by the likes of Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman, Pauly Shore, Cody Gardbrandt from UFC, and Deron Williams from NBA.Their passion for art started at an early age, when they copied famous paintings from Vincent Van Gogh and Salvador Dali, who inspired them to take it to the next level.	PsychoMolly #PEACE PsychoKitty #PEACE
Vamuel	Vamuel is a 24 year old artist & artistic director who has been designing and creating art since the age of 13, specifically 3D sculpting. His love of delicately presenting and crafting beauty within darkness brings a new creative twist on modern Dark Romanticism. The deeper he dives into Dark Romanticism the more he finds a true form of expression.	Angel of Hope
visualsoptimist	Bishal is a digital artist from India with over 5 years of experience. He likes to use his imagery and creative concepts to give the viewers a visual treat. He creates Photoshop compositions, and dark and dramatic atmospheres define his work.	Mystical Mantas Lone Wolf Fantastical Dream

From 25 March 2022, 10:00 UTC to 31 March 2022, 23:59 UTC, you can purchase the NFTs during the drop here.

You can also donate directly to aid those affected by the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, either by cryptocurrency using Crypto.com Pay, or by credit card and debit card via the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement website here.

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