Find many more artistic images to download here. But while we’re sheltering from it - and continuing to carry on business as usual as best we can - we might as well get take every opportunity to get artistic. That last work, pictured above, has a certain metaphorical resonance with the situation the world now finds itself in, hoping though we are that the storm of COVID-19 is now passing rather than still coming. In this post appears, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Katsushika Hokusai’s Under the Wave off Kanagawa (whose evolution to the status of an iconic ukiyo-e print we’ve previously covered) from the Getty, an 18th-century room “originally used as a bedroom or large cabinet in a private Parisian home at number 18 place Vendôme” and from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, George Bellows’ The Coming Storm. Here at Open Culture, we’ll point you to the thirty world-class museums that have put two million works of art online, many of which institutions have made them available for download. The Verge’s Natt Garun recently rounded up a few resources where you can find more promising virtual-background material, from bingo cards to beaches to “pop culture homes” including “Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment from Sex and the City, your favorite Friends lofts, Seinfeld living rooms, and more.” This means they’re also fair game to use as your own custom background.”įrom the Getty’s digital collection Shamberg offers such works suitable for Zoom as Van Gogh’s Irises, Turner’s Van Tromp, going about to please his Masters, Ships a Sea, getting a Good Wetting, and other canvasses of such reliably pleasing settings as 18th-century Venice and a 16th-century forest with a rabbit. Perhaps you’ve done that and are simply bored.

It certainly has at the Getty, whose digital editor Caitlin Shamberg notes that “the Getty’s Open Content program includes over 100,000 images that are free and downloadable. Be sure to check out Free Zoom Backgrounds list as well Check out free Webex Backgrounds here Don’t forget Skypewe’ve got backgrounds for them too Thanks, Stay Safe, and Wear Pants Like many of us, you are probably struggling to find your new normal. Word of the virtual background’s possibilities has spread through institutions everywhere.

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