Episode5-Archetype

"By The Sea" - pieces with large amounts of flat, uncolored sections

Partial color expression - pieces in palettes where only some colors are expressed. Demonstrated in the Hotshot palette.

"In The Sea" - pieces completely filled with color

Long cells - outputs with long rows of patterns, giving an alleyway-like appearnce

Varying shape sizes - some pieces have rectangles with small and large rectangles, some have uniform sizes

Collector's Corner - The Premier NFT Art Podcast

Your hosts: @astamcloud and @jared_poz

www.collectorscorner.xyz @collectors_xyz (Twitter) Recorded: September 9, 2022

Into The Collection

Deep dives into the top generative art collections

Episode 5: Archetype by Kjetil Golid

Archetype explores the use of repetition as a counterweight to unruly, random structures. As each single component look chaotic alone, the repetition brings along a sense of intentionality, ultimately resulting in a complex, yet satisfying expression. - Kjetil Golid

Release date: February 27, 2021 Collection size: 600 Platform: Artblocks Curated

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Category: Framed

Category: Layout

Category: Palette

Category: Scene

Category: Shading

Hidden traits

Astam's top picks of the collection

Jared's top picks of the collection

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Framed is simply whether or not there is a frame outside of the piece. As you can see below, framed makes an aesthetic difference, but more importantly there are only 25 (4%) and therefore framed pieces hold a significant price premium.

Framed (left) vs. unframed on the Sprague palette

Framed (left) vs. unframed on the Main Course palette

Layout describes how the original rectangle is partitioned. On one extreme is "Order" which has only one section that is then evenly subdivided. On the end is "Chaos" where there are many more sections resulting in more randomness. "Balance" results in moderately sized sections and resulting color, shape, and shade fill-ins

Order - Balance - Chaos on the Blue Spider palette

Order - Balance - Chaos on the Revolucion palette

Palette refer to the color scheme from which the shapes may be filled. Notably, not all of the possible colors within a palette may be filled into the piece, resulting in interesting ways one can collect.

There are 42 palettes. 3 of the palettes only have 1 piece in this collection, and the most is 36. Below are a few of our favorites.

Nowak palette

Rosewood palette

Shelter palette

Cold Duo palette

Hotshot palette

Palettes with only 1 output

Spider King

Ducci

Mono

One of the more impactful categories, scene dictates whether you see a 2D, flat image vs. a corner vs. a full cube.

There are only 27 Corners (4.5%) and 10 Cubes (1.6%), making them ultra rare. Combined with the aesthetic beauty of these variants, it's not surprising they command a significant price premium, if you can even find one for sale.

Shading refers to the amount of shade on the two visible sides of each shape in the image. The most obvious is Noon which has shading on all visible sides, and creates a 3D look to the shapes. On the other end of the spectrum is Bright, which does not have any shade.

Morning and Evening each have shade on one side of each visible image, and Bright Morning and Bright Evening have a lower opacity shade on one side (it's subtle).

Notably, Corner and Cube type scenes can only have Bright, Bright Morning, or Bright Evening shading.

Flat - Corner - Cube on the Honeypot palette

Flat - Corner - Cube on the Hotshot palette

There are many traits in Archetype that are not reflected in the metadata. Kjetil Golid himself pointed out a bunch of these in his article on Archetype. Below are a few that we believe could easily be collected against, and in fact many of these are (most notably monochrome)

Monochrome - pieces where only one color emerges

"No-chrome" - pieces where colors only emerge in structures "below" the surface (left) or not at all (right)

Noon (left) vs. Bright (right) on the Green Spider palette

Bright Evening (left) vs. Bright (right) on Corner scenes

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