Kiss by aards2, a re(n)union of William Bouguereau and his student Emile Munier. Click for full view.

When rock stars from different bands team up you call it a jam session. When painters do the same you get something similar: a new artwork, or a Re(n)union, as they call it on Worth1000. In the fourth edition of this contest, digital artists were challenged to take parts of two or more artworks by different artists and put them together to create one new masterpiece.

No less than six of the 39 entries involved art by William Bouguereau. Two of them, both by photoshop artist aards2, fell in the prizes.

The gold award went to the combination of Emile Munier’s Playing wit the Kitten and the cupid from Bouguereau’s 1880 work Jeune Fille se Defendant Contre L’amour (Young Girl Defending herself against Cupid). Interesting is that Munier was actually one of Bouguereau’s students, so the picture could really have existed! Below are the full version of Kiss, and the two sources .

The bronze prize was awarded to Party Poopers, featuring Bouguerau’s Douleur d’amour (Elegy, 1899), and a chubby little Bacchus guzzling wine while urinating, by Italian Baroque painter Guido Reni. (If you pay close attention you can also spot a passed-out little boy, borrowed from Bouguereau’s Le Repos.)

The remaining Bouguereau-inspired entries in this contest are shown below. Click each to visit the galleries where you can find many more remastered versions of the same original paintings.