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  • Joe Park meets William Bouguereau
  • Joshua LaRock meets William Bouguereau
  • Bouguereau bids adieu to the Hummer
  • Happy Bouguereau Birthday to Dakota Fanning
  • Happy Bouguereau Birthday to Drew Barrymore
  • Team Bouguereau goes figure skating
  • Bouguereau is seeing ghosts - again
  • Bouguereau takes a Persian detour
  • Happy Valentine’s Day from William Bouguereau!
  • Happy Bouguereau Birthday to Jennifer Aniston
  • Bouguereau in a socio-political statement
  • Bouguereau’s birthday surprise for Norman Rockwell
  • A triple Bouguereau tribute to Heather Graham
  • Turning up the Bouguereau cracks
  • First prize for digital Bouguereau Mosaic
  • Bouguereau’s Baywatch — a dramatic rescue from the sea
  • Bouguereau is having a ball
  • Bouguereau goes Pop — and that makes it 1,500!
  • Bouguereau meets the Elephant Man
  • Bouguereau and the fight against time
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    Bouguereau bids adieu to the Hummer

    Detail of L’Amour au Humvee by katiekate on FreakingNews. Click for full image.
    Automobiles saw the light only in William Bouguereau’s final years, and the Frenchman never felt inclined to paint them. But others did! Shown above is L’Amour au Humvee by American digital artist katiekate (real name Catherine R. Drumm) for a Hummer [...]

    Bouguereau’s Baywatch — a dramatic rescue from the sea

    Detail of Death, birth by esstera on DeviantArt. Click for full image (800px × 1,181px).
    This dramatic scene, entitled Death, birth was created by Magdalena Smokrovic from Croatia, publishing as esstera on DeviantArt. It’s a masterful combination of Bouguereau’s 1895 painting Le Ravissement de Psyche (The Rapture of Psyche) and two stock photos. Bouguereau’s original painting [...]

    Bouguereau and the fight against time

    Le Temps by Tristan Grindrod. Click for source.
    “In our days many women are more concerned with fighting off time instead of Cupid’s arrow.” Those are the words of Australian graphic artist and musician Tristan Grindrod (aka TR¥§T onMySpace, houseoftryst on DeviantArt, and using his own name on Facebook). He is the creator of this image [...]

    Bouguereau comforts a homeless traveller

    Travel Enlightenment (Oil on masonite) by Arthur Erberber. Click for source.
    Arthur Erberber was born and raised in Queens New York and enjoys hanging with his friends and family, along with creating art, and when the time and money are there, traveling outside of the fish bowl called New York City. He has always loved comic [...]

    Bouguereau teams up with Gustave Doré in a medieval tale by Dante

    Detail of Dante and Virgil in the underworld speak to the souls of Paolo and Francesca by Gordon Napier. Click for full image.
    British artist Gordon Napier is fascinated with medieval art, history and writing. He publishes his work on DeviantArt under the dashinvaine monniker. Shown above is a scene he drew from Divine Comedy by [...]

    Bouguereau Meets a Modern Traditionalist

    Detail of Song of the Angels by Conan Zhao. Click for full image (1097px × 1552px).
    Although most of the Remastered Bouguereaus on this site are digital (aka photoshopped) creations, there are still many artists who use traditional tools and materials to create contemporary versions of Bouguereau’s paintings. One of them is Conan Zhao. Born in [...]

    Bouguereau Takes a Coffee Break

    Detail of Espresso Angel by Karen Eland. Click for full image.
    People have been spoofing iconic works of art for decades as a form of creative, or re-creative, expression. Following this time-honored tradition is American artist Karen Eland [website]. Her versions of classic masterpieces include works by Matisse, Picasso, and of course Bouguereau. But instead of [...]

    Impossible Encounters 8: Bouguereau Meets Rockwell

    Detail of Naughty Angel by arsidubu on Worth1000. Click for full image.
    Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978, wiki) was a 20th century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he [...]

    Impossible Encounters 5: Bouguereau Meets Asselijn

    Detail of Swan Love by yifaty. Click for full image.
    Jan Asselijn (1610 - 1652, wiki) was a 17th century Dutch painter. One of his paintings, The Threatened Swan, which portrays a swan aggressively defending its nest, has often been used as a symbol of Dutch national resistance, although it is unknown if Asselijn intended it [...]

    Impossible Encounters 1: Bouguereau Meets Magritte

    Detail of Bouguereau Meets Magritte by geldkobra. Click for full image.
    By the time William Bouguereau died (in 1905), René Magritte [wiki] was only an 8-year old boy, living in Belgium. In other words: the two men never met. But even if they had known each other, Bouguereau wouldn’t have liked Magritte’s work — he hated [...]