Insure that the art is not being resized out of it's original proportions. Just like how nobody want's to see a pan and scan movie anymore, make sure you aren't robbing the art of it's compositional power by changing it's dimensions.
Also as a visual artist myself, I have actually noticed in the past that having a piece of art as my wallpaper has helped me build a better understanding of a master's work through repeated exposure. I'm just brain storming here, but it would be cool if say over the course of a month I was shown 4 or 5 different pieces (I prefer a long exposure in order to allow my interpretation time to evolve and grow) and each of these pieces were related somehow. It could become a bit of a puzzle to figure out what the last work had in common with this weeks.
Artful does not change the aspect ratio. As for whether or not the edges are truncated, that is an option left to the user--each piece can be displayed in full, letterboxed or pillarboxed (with bars of arbitrary color), or it can be cropped to fill the screen.
Insure that the art is not being resized out of it's original proportions. Just like how nobody want's to see a pan and scan movie anymore, make sure you aren't robbing the art of it's compositional power by changing it's dimensions.
Also as a visual artist myself, I have actually noticed in the past that having a piece of art as my wallpaper has helped me build a better understanding of a master's work through repeated exposure. I'm just brain storming here, but it would be cool if say over the course of a month I was shown 4 or 5 different pieces (I prefer a long exposure in order to allow my interpretation time to evolve and grow) and each of these pieces were related somehow. It could become a bit of a puzzle to figure out what the last work had in common with this weeks.