Detail of Solve et coagula by Corrado Vanelli on CGSociety. Click for full image (1,000px × 1,618px). Alchemy is both a philosophy and an ancient practice focused on the attempt to change base metals into gold, investigating the preparation of the “elixir of longevity”, and achieving ultimate wisdom. The image above represents an allegory of [...]

Time for a little interlude here on Bouguereau Remastered. The pictures above and below are not strictly modernized versions of Bouguereau’s work but rather new uses of them. Australian ladies’ swimwear manufacturer Lisa Blue features a number of classic paintings on their 2011/2012 collection, including two works by William Bouguereau. Shown above and below left [...]

Detail of Yoda by BrunoSousa on Worth1000. Click for full image (586px × 1,000px). In the Star Wars universe, Yoda (wiki) is the ancient and revered Jedi Master, who lived his final years hiding on the swamp planet of Dagobah. Nine hundred years old, Yoda had trained Jedi for eight centuries, and was very powerful [...]

Detail of At the pool by renatodornas on Worth1000. Click for full image (693px × 765px). Nothing is more refreshing on a hot day than to take a dip in the pool. In this image from 2005, digital artist renatodornas used Bouguereau’s 1899 painting Douleur d’amour (Elegy) as the entry for the fifth edition of [...]

Detail of Turtle Love by rwpike on FreakingNews. Click for full image (1,280px × 2,161px) In celebration of World Turtle Day (May 23), FreakingNews organized a contest with the motto If Turtles Ruled. Digital artists were challenged to show how the world would be different if turtles were masters of the world and the arts. [...]

Detail of The Abduction of Jill Psyche by CyberCorn-Entropic on DeviantArt. Click for full image (800px × 1 219px). Marvin Fuller, operating as CyberCorn-Entropic on DeviantArt created his characters Joe Cupid and Jill Psyche as early as in 1992. He used these “Furry Incarnations of Love and the Soul” as wedding anniversary cards for his [...]

Detail of 10 and Rose Angel by Fran Glass. Click for full image. American graphic artist and fiction writer Fran Glass [website] is a staunch fan of the British science fiction TV series Doctor Who [wiki]. In this show, the Doctor is a mysterious, humanoid alien who travels through time and space with his companions, [...]

Detail of The First Kiss – Poser Art by bishop2z3z on DeviantArt. Click for full image (1,400px × 1,429px) Poser is 3D rendering software, specially developed to create 3D human models, better known as Poser figures. The software comes with its own models, but many other companies have developed their own range of figures. Two [...]

Detail of Post-Genesis by Obes Gonzalo. Click for full image. Biomechanical post-surrealism may not be an officially recognized art form but the term has been used to describe the work of Spanish artist Obes Gonzalo. Being an autodidact (ironically and jokingly he says: “It’s a pity I never had a better teacher than me.“), he [...]

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 photoshop [...]