Wallpaper Weekends is a series that works to bring you stunning, high-quality. This week, we’re classing up your device with this collection of artsy.The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.– Pablo Picasso“Every child is an artist.
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A look back at Apple’s greatest wallpapers. Although the oldest images date back around 30 years, the archive was assembled by 18-year-old Evgenii Bogun, an art and design student in Moscow. This wallpaper provides a 3-D effect to your wall as the pattern has a variety of thin vertical stripes criss-crossing up the paper. Available in beige, blue, pink, and white, this wallpaper would.
The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”― Pablo Picasso“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”― Leonardo da Vinci“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”― Edgar DegasDownload Directions for Your iPhoneFrom your device, link to the full resolution image of any of these artsy iPhone wallpapers simply by tapping the individual images. When the new window opens, tap the Safari Extensions icon in the bottom area of your browser, (it looks like a box with an up arrow sticking out of it, you’ll recognize it), and tap “Save image” to save the image to your Photo Library.From your desktop computer, link to the full resolution image by clicking the image. Right-click and save the image to your iTunes photo sync folder.
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Back in 2012, shortly after Apple got the whole “Retina” ball rolling, the pickings for beautiful high-resolution desktop wallpapers were pretty slim. The list highlighted just five sites, and I had to scour the place to drum that many up.Thankfully those five were terrific, flush with beautiful imagery, much of it captured and cultivated by professional photographers, talented artists and enthusiasts of eclectic cultural miscellany. They’ve more than kept my 2800 x 1880 pixel workspace happy. But we’re a ways from 2012, and with 4K and higher screens on the rise, the world’s filling up with post-1080p (1920 x 1080 pixels) content.So here’s my list of picks updated for 2014, including the five original sites — still some of the best around — but with several lovely additions.
Keep tabs on these, and you’re looking at enough art to swap your desktop or mobile device’s wallpaper several times a day for years to come. InterfaceLIFTIf I had to pick one site, it would (it was my favorite last time, too). The photographic and post-shot editing talent on display in this joint is second to none, and the images now roll up past my 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro’s 2880 x 1880 resolution to 3840 x 2400 (as well as 3860 x 2160, the 4K ultra high definition TV standard). The site itself is also one of the most elegantly designed and easy to navigate, each picture annotated with the photographer’s capture device specs and post-processing notes. VladstudioYou, but you will find some of the best eclectic digital art on the web.
Russian artist Vlad Gerasimov’s collection of desktop wallpapers is gorgeous, a trove of clever, imaginative and occasionally humorous themes that range from seasonal showcases and riffs on maps of the world to playful musings on digital life. Note: the desktop resolutions currently top out at 2880 x 1880, but the site includes support for most Apple and Android devices as well as multi-monitor (up to three) ultra-wide images.
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