Brutalisti, also known as Bruta, is a Tezos-based NFT artist working across oil painting, digital collage, generative adversarial networks, and generative code. The practice began with physical oil paintings, moved into digital alterations, and later added drops made with code on the platform fxhash. The process is one of tinkering: taking an old work, altering it, adding to or breaking it, until an idea takes shape.
Early Ape in Town was a collaboration: an ape painted in Photoshop over a partner's earlier oil painting. Dragana reworked an old graphite study into a digital collage. The artist has also collaborated with other NFT artists, including Michele Petrelli, Mihai Grecu, and Adam Disbrow. Bellissimas, made with Michele Petrelli, layers altered, prerendered imagery with purely generative visuals on fxhash.
