This series utilizes four of my favourite OS X/mac OS Wallpapers: Lion, Mountain Lion, El Capitan, and Big Sur and tries to recreate them in the post-impressionist style of Van Gogh. From there, images were upscaled, sharpened and textured in Pixelmator Pro before being cropped and formatted for the Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Each image featured is the end result from hundreds of prompts, iterations, and creative variations supplied to Midjourney before I was satisfied with the result. These images were all created using the Midjourney, an AI model that generates images based on prompts provided by the user. His adoption of vivid colours and energetic brush strokes are perhaps two of the most notable artistic qualities of this post-impressionist painter a man who struggled mightily with his mental health and desire to make an impression in the artistic world. Van Gogh is perhaps most well known for his many self-portrait paintings and works like his 1889 The Starry Night, 1890 Almond Blossoms, and his 1888 Sunflowers series. His works, including thousands of drawings and over 900 oil paintings, were primarily created within a narrow 10-year window before his death. Selling just one painting during his short 37-year life (1853-1890), Van Gogh's artwork only became famous posthumously. Quick history lesson: Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch-born painter born during the impressionist/post-impressionist period. So positive was the reception that it inspired me to create another collection of four AI-generated macOS wallpapers, again inspired by Van Gogh. That response to Big Starry Sur vastly exceeded my expectations. It wasn't till the following day that I could finally host it on my webspace and provide a reliable link for people to download it. Hundreds messaged me for a link, and when I uploaded it onto Google Drive, the surge to download it was so enormous that Google stopped access to the drive for several hours. Not being hyperbolic, the wallpaper exploded in popularity. In early March, I posted a photo on social media titled 'macOS Big Sur in the style of Van Gogh’s Starry Night' an AI-generated mashup of macOS Big Sur's default wallpaper attempted in the art style of Van Gogh's The Starry Night. Following the unexpected success of Big Starry Sur, I am releasing a new wallpaper pack featuring four OS X/macOS wallpapers in the artistic style of the late Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh.
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