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  2. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is an unedited photograph of a green hill and blue sky with white clouds in the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of Wine Country, California. Charles O'Rear took the photo in January 1996 and Microsoft bought the rights ...

  3. Wallpaper (computing) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Liminal space (aesthetic) - Wikipedia

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    Liminal space (aesthetic) An empty hotel hallway, an example of a liminal space. In Internet aesthetics, liminal spaces are empty or abandoned places that appear eerie, forlorn, and often surreal. Liminal spaces are commonly places of transition, pertaining to the concept of liminality. Research from the Journal of Environmental Psychology has ...

  5. Abstract art - Wikipedia

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    Abstract art. 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] Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an ...

  6. Windows XP visual styles - Wikipedia

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    Compared to Desktop Themes in previous versions of Windows such as Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me, the new visual styles have a greater emphasis on the graphical appeal of the operating system, using saturated colors [3] and bitmaps [4] throughout the interface, with rounded corners for windows.

  7. Desktop environment - Wikipedia

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    Desktop environment. In computing, a desktop environment (DE) is an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating system that share a common graphical user interface (GUI), sometimes described as a graphical shell. The desktop environment was seen mostly on personal computers until ...

  8. Aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste and, in a broad sense, incorporates the philosophy of art. [1] Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgments of artistic taste; [2] thus, the function of aesthetics is the ...

  9. Vaporwave - Wikipedia

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    Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music and a subgenre of hauntology, a visual art style, and an Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s, [30][31] and became well-known in 2015. [32] It is defined partly by its slowed-down, chopped and screwed samples of smooth jazz, 1970s elevator music, [32] R&B, and lounge music from the 1980s ...