Most Expensive GIF

The article ‘The Most Expensive GIF of ALL Time Is Being Sold for $5,800’ is about an artist named Michael Green who created the iconic Balloon Dog that sold for $54.4 million but there was a twist and he used several images to create a gif of that iconic dog being deflated. He first put it on eBay for two thousand dollars but when that didn’t sell he upped the price to five thousand eight hundred dollars. He states in the interview that the deflation itself is a statement to ‘destroy values of the tradition of mart art.’ When I first read this article I was a bit confused on why he would up the price since I personally do not think anyone would casually spend five grand on a gif of a deflating balloon dog. I later realized he was trying to make a statement for art and digital art. It states in the article that physical imagery and museums are ‘dead’ and to some extent, I agree since technology has advanced so much and it has consumed our everyday lives. Instead of going to see physical paintings, people do not want to pay and would much rather see it digitally since everything is almost online. Green wanted to emphasize on this and thus created the gif to represent saying out farewell to ‘physical’ art and welcoming the new ‘age.’ Which he was indeed ahead of his time because more art has transitioned to being digital and most arts are digital artists.