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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 a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...

  3. Wallpaper - Wikipedia

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    Wallpaper enjoyed a huge boom in popularity in the nineteenth century, seen as a cheap and very effective way of brightening up cramped and dark rooms in working-class areas. It became almost the norm in most areas of middle-class homes, but remained relatively little used in public buildings and offices, with patterns generally being avoided ...

  4. Ico - Wikipedia

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    Ico [b] is a 2001 action-adventure game developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2.It was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, who wanted to create a minimalist game based on a "boy meets girl" concept.

  5. Almond Blossoms - Wikipedia

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    [16] Dark lines outline the branches. This is a feature that Van Gogh had admired in Japanese floral studies that, for example, may depict a portion of a stalk of bamboo in an empty space. [ 3 ] The bright color is reflective of the paintings made in Arles and the transformational work van Gogh had on the still life genre.

  6. Screen printing - Wikipedia

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    Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil.A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen in a "flood stroke" to fill the open mesh apertures with ink, and a reverse stroke then causes the screen to touch the substrate momentarily along a line of contact.

  7. Pin-up model - Wikipedia

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    Betty Grable's famous pin-up photo from 1943. A pin-up model is a model whose mass-produced pictures and photographs have wide appeal within the popular culture of a society. . Pin-up models are usually glamour, actresses, or fashion models whose pictures are intended for informal and aesthetic display, known for being pinned onto a w

  8. Conker (series) - Wikipedia

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    Conker is a series of platform video games created and produced by Rare.It chronicles the events of Conker the Squirrel, an anthropomorphic red squirrel that made his debut as a playable character in Diddy Kong Racing.

  9. Hyperrealism (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    Early 21st century hyperrealism was founded on the aesthetic principles of photorealism. American painter Denis Peterson, whose pioneering works are universally viewed as an offshoot of photorealism, first used [5] "hyperrealism" to apply to the new movement and its splinter group of artists.