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PROPAGANDA is a large collection of GPL-licensed [1] seamless desktop backgrounds included in various Linux distributions, and available via free download over the web.While no longer being produced or even officially hosted online, the collection consisted of approximately 15 volumes of largely abstract and surreal art, numbering over 1,000 images in total.
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. [1] Abstract art, non-figurative art, non-objective art, and non-representational art are all closely related terms. They have similar, but perhaps not identical, meanings.
Obering was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1937. [1] When Obering was a teenager, she visited Italy for the first time – the formative trip introduced her to art and Renaissance painting, an experience that Obering said "was always in the back of [her] mind."
Hilma af Klint (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈhɪ̂lːma ˈɑːv ˈklɪnːt]; 26 October 1862 – 21 October 1944) was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered among the first major abstract works in Western art history. [1] A considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky, Malevich and ...
A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the Palace of Versailles A wallpaper from fractal. A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device.
The plum blossom in particular is not only of central importance to Chinese art, it also appeared on the wallpaper of her childhood bedroom. [ 13 ] With their domestic references, sumptuous colors, floral imagery, [ 20 ] and use of pretty materials like glitter, her paintings engage with the world's disdain for a certain gender, class, and ...
[12] Art historian Charles W. Millard also maintained that Hopper was an abstract painter, citing Rooms by the Sea and Sun in an Empty Room as two examples. Millard notes that Hopper had a penchant for "rigorous geometric abstraction" by way of his use of color, but that he was unable to transition to pure abstraction due to his artistic ...
Strictly speaking, it refers to art unconcerned with the literal depiction of things from the visible world [1] —it can, however, refer to an object or image which has been distilled from the real world, or indeed, another work of art. Artwork that reshapes the natural world for expressive purposes is called abstract; that which derives from ...