Detail of Dakota Le Gouter by FormNFunction on Worth1000. Click for full image.
February 23, 2010 marks the 16th birthday of American teen actress Dakota Fanning [wiki]. Fanning’s breakthrough performance was in I Am Sam in 2001. As a child actress, she appeared in high-profile films such as Man on Fire, War of the Worlds, and [...]

Poppy Field by Enzie Shahmir. Click for source & bigger.
Enzie Shahmiri [website, Flickr] creates paintings which have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibits in California and are in private collections in the USA, Europe and the Middle East. Her art ranges from traditional oil portraits to Orientalist style figurative pieces using a Classical [...]

The Rich get Richer! by rubyblossom on Flickr. Click for full image.
William Bouguereau never shied away from depicting poor and deprived mothers and children, and some of his beggar’s portraits are among the best known of his works. So it’s no coincidence that British digital artist rubyblossom (who also publishes as Nitwitbrit on DeviantArt) found [...]

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 [...]

Bouguereau’s The Prayer, recreated by chalk artist Cuong Nguyen in Palo Alto 2009. Click for bigger.
The Palo Alto Festival of the Arts [official website] is an annual “high quality, community-friendly” event, which attracts over 150,000 people from throughout California and the West Coast. One of the main attractions is the Italian Street Painting Expo.
In [...]

For Bouguereau by Phatpuppy, based on Bouguereau’s Childhood Idyll. Click for bigger.
This remastered version of William Bouguereau’s 1900 work Idylle Enfantine (A Childhood Idyll) was created by Californian digital artist Claudia Bartoli McKinney (facebook), publishing as phatpuppy on deviantArt. The dramatic backdrop consists of stock photos and pictures taken by Claudia herself. In her own [...]

Detail of Rabbit by Rungue, inspired by Bouguereau’s 1869 work Le crabe (The Crab). Click for full image.
Each week, digital artists are invited to submit any photoshopped work for the Freak Show contest on Freaking News. In January 2009 this lovely rabbit was winner of the Silver award. It was created by 19-year old digital [...]

Gold winner Palin 2008. Sarah Palin carrying John McCain to the White House?
With the US presidential elections hotting up it’s no surprise that Bouguereau is the artist of choice for photoshoppers who want to create political posters. The one above shows the republican ticket for the 2008 race. Created by digital artist midian, it was [...]

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is due out in 2009, Bouguereau wanted one of his art subjects in it, and was pleased to see they accepted his offer.
The picture shown above was the Silver Award winner in a Cinema Pygmalion contest on Worth1000 in August 2008. In this contest, digital artists were asked [...]

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Leonardo da Vinci and William Bouguereau may have lived four centuries apart, but in art history that’s no time at all. Here you can find proof, in the shape of some beautiful Bouguerau paintings depicting Mona Lisa. You won’t find these paintings in the Paris Louvre, but exclusively here, on [...]