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What’s on TV, Monsieur Bouguereau?

Detail of Old TV by Craving on FreakingNews. Click for full image (800px × 852px) This Remastered Bouguereau dates from November 2008, and was the winner in a Television Paintings contest on photoshop site FreakingNews, in celebration of World Television … Continue reading

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Happy Valentine’s Day From William Bouguereau!

Love is Immortal by Debbie McMurtrie on DeviantArt. Click for bigger (1440×900) William Bouguereau didn’t create many paintings featuring the happy relationship between two lovers. His early work Idylle, painted in 1851, is one of the exceptions. British digital artist … Continue reading

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Bouguereau Goes To The Movies

Flicka and Bouguereau by Mundo on FreakingNews. Click for full-size image (916px × 710px) By the time the first moving pictures appeared William Bouguereau was already an elderly man so he may never have been to the movies. Never mind! … Continue reading

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A Bouguereau Tribute To Star Wars Modelmaker Grant McCune

Detail of WD-40 by aards2 on Worth1000. Click for full image (687px × 911px) Oscar-winning Star Wars visual-effects designer Grant McCune, who created scenes with models and miniature films for more than three decades, died 27 December 2010 of pancreatic … Continue reading

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Bouguereau In The Land Of Elves And Orcs

Left: Elfa and Eana. Right: Azeleen abnd Hirkhania. Both images by Zergoo. Click to view more. French artist Zergoo (no further details known) creates comic strips, drawings, digitally edited images, photos and fashion. An important part of her website is … Continue reading

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Bouguereau’s Winter Wonderland (2): Crown of Flowers

Detail of Snow by JannaR on FreakingNews. Click for full image (500px × 954px) The second image in this series of winterized Bouguereau paintings was created by American digital artist JannaR for a Winter Paintings context in February 2007. She … Continue reading

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Bouguereau’s Nut Gatherers Get A Dolly Makeover

The Nut Gatherers by Ekateryn Rosanoff on Flickr. Click for source. Chilean photography student Ekateryn Rosanoff, publishing as (◕ ω ◕)♡ on Flickr, is creative with dolls. She often places them in situations which are inspired by classical paintings. One … Continue reading

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Bouguereau’s Fantasy World: The Freedom Fighter

Detail of Freedom Fighter by ChrisEll on Worth1000. Click for full image. In this Remastered Bouguereau digital artist ChrisEll created a futuristic wartime scene using Bouguereau’s 1869 painting The Elder Sister. The image won the second prize in a Fantasy … Continue reading

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Bouguereau's Fantasy World: The Devil's Pet

The Devil’s Pet by Godzjumenas on Worth1000. Click for bigger (1200×750) It doesn’t happen often that a Remastered Bouguereau consists of no less than four(!) other Bouguereau paintings. Shown above is an exception. It was created by Godzjumenas for a … Continue reading

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"Stripping Away Bouguereau’s Romantic Idealism"

British-born, American-based painter Graham McNamara [website] prefers to call his work art objects rather than paintings. Shown above are two of those art objects, part of a series which, in McNamara’s own words: “…deconstructs the very chocolate-box works of William-Adolphe … Continue reading

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