...is the first digital art collection that pays tribute to Brett, the legendary character born from the mind of Matt Furie, creator of Pepe, and the iconic magazine Boy’s Club, from which this collection draws its inspiration. Each Brett is a 1/1, original, unique, and immutable. It is important to understand that this collection is not associated with or drawn by Matt Furie, but is the result of the work of an independent and anonymous artist who seeks to reinterpret Furie’s sharp visual and narrative wit, and his psychedelic creatures, with a unique style of their own. It is hoped that Brett, like Pepe, will become another icon embraced by "la internet" to help continue spreading and promoting freedom of speech!
...is the first digital art collection that pays tribute to Brett, the legendary character born from the mind of Matt Furie, creator of Pepe, and the iconic magazine Boy’s Club, from which this collection draws its inspiration. Each Brett is a 1/1, original, unique, and immutable. It is important to understand that this collection is not associated with or drawn by Matt Furie, but is the result of the work of an independent and anonymous artist who seeks to reinterpret Furie’s sharp visual and narrative wit, and his psychedelic creatures, with a unique style of their own. It is hoped that Brett, like Pepe, will become another icon embraced by "la internet" to help continue spreading and promoting freedom of speech!
It is not our intention to offend anyone by showing teenagers with proudly orange nuclear zits created with ultra-cheddar-flavored potatoes, anthropomorphic faces shaped like testicles, or eyes bulging from different strains of Cannabis. Instead, our intention is to show that behind all this cascade of mischief, behind this visual punk pogo, there is a psychedelic consciousness that sees beyond the name and the form, growing in respect for others. Knowing that whatever form the other takes, their choice should not offend anyone and should be accepted as one of us, no matter how different they are. Because if there's one thing all humans have in common, it's that we are all different, and that other, that so different one, today It's Brett!
The concept of "after a work" refers to a unique artwork that is inspired by or copied from another artist to whom I pay tribute and study. There are many examples in art history of this concept, with some of the most well-known being Vincent Van Gogh's "after Millet" works, where he reproduced iconic pieces by Jean-François Millet using a different color palette or altering shapes while maintaining the narrative of the original piece. Similarly, I refer to this work as "after Furie," redrawing and reworking each of the traits and complete non-generative pieces (category: anthropomorphism) that make up this collection. I achieve this by studying the "line art" scenes from Boy’s Club, characterized by one-color line drawings typical of comic art. From these, I take small parts, redrawing the lines through pixel art, and bring my own vision to the narrative concept with an expressionist style. I blend saturated and washed colors, like Brett's own skin, and colors seen in early color cartoons. These colors also design most of the traits in the collection, which do not come from Boy’s Club but are pure creations of my own. These Bretts blend stylistic concepts and references to other artists who inspire me, such as Argentine artist Linniers (Macanudo), Bob Camp (Ren & Stimpy), Matt Groening (Life in Hell, Futurama, The Simpsons), Rubber Hose animation, and some concepts from crypto art, such as Cryptopunks (aliens, zombies). My ideas, an Adobe RGB 1966 color palette, and image texture (the uniform monochromatic noise intended to simulate 8mm film grain, and a psychedelic sprinkle of color pixels that alternate and overlap to create abstract generative patterns, reinterpreting action painting but with pixels) compose a collection of 4,114 hilarious Bretts with expressionist characteristics, meticulously curated. To view them in detail, I recommend downloading the original “.png” image hosted on IPFS with a size of 560 × 439px, which I decided not to scale in order to maintain its essence and to allow those who wish to enlarge the true image and see how each piece was conceived in its original form, pixel by pixel, with the same style, color, and size as created on my computer.
Peace, love, and psychedelic pixels,
Sincerely, Leprochant🐉 ㊙
