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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. Artsy (website) - Wikipedia

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   Artsy, formally known as Art.sy Inc is a New York City based online art brokerage. [1] Its main business is developing and hosting website for numerous galleries as well as selling art for them. [ 2 ]

4. Artstor - Wikipedia

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   Artstor is a nonprofit organization that builds and distributes the Digital Library, an online resource of more than 2.5 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences, and Shared Shelf, a Web-based cataloging and image management software service that allows institutions to catalog, edit, store, and share local collections.

5. The Art Genome Project - Wikipedia

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   The Art Genome Project is the search technology behind Artsy.. The Art Genome Project's search technology is the product of an ongoing art-historical study — undertaken by a team of contributors with art-historical backgrounds at Artsy — seeking to define the characteristics which distinguish and connect works of art, architecture, ancient artifacts and design.

6. Dark academia - Wikipedia

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   Collegiate Gothic architecture is a popular theme within the aesthetic.. The fashion of the 1930s and 1940s features prominently in the dark academia aesthetic, particularly clothing associated with attendance at Oxbridge, Ivy League schools, and prep schools of the period.

7. High culture - Wikipedia

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   The Creation of Adam, from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling – an example of high culture. In a society, high culture encompasses cultural objects of aesthetic value which a society collectively esteems as being exemplary works of art, [1] as well as the intellectual works of literature and music, history and philosophy which a society considers representative of their culture.

8. Conceptual art - Wikipedia

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   Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917. Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz Robert Rauschenberg, Portrait of Iris Clert 1961 Art & Language, Art-Language Vol. 3 Nr. 1, 1974. Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work are prioritized equally to or more than traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns.

9. Aesthetics - Wikipedia

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   Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgments of artistic taste; [2] thus, the function of aesthetics is the "critical reflection on art, culture and nature". [3] [4] Aesthetics studies natural and artificial sources of experiences and how people form a judgment about those sources of experience.