Detail of Death of a Cyborg by Shorra on Worth1000. Click for full image (936px × 809px) In August 2010, Worth1000 organized the seventh edition of their RoboRen contest. Digital artists were challenged to “take any work of art and robotize it”. The winner of the contest was Death of a Cyborg by Shorra who [...]

Detail of Senza Pietá by Aaron Nagel. Click for full image (709px × 864px) If there was ever any doubt about the popularity of William Bouguereau’s art, this blog proves the contrary in a convincing way. Shown above is the 1,800th Remastered Bouguereau in this virtual museum. It’s a stunning creation by Aaron Nagel (website), [...]

Detail of Madonna and baby by lootsvele on Flickr. Click for full-size image (up to 2128 x 2832px) Most Remastered Bouguereaus on this site are elaborate works created by digital and traditional artists with an eye for detail. The one shown above is an exception. It’s a stencil created by lootsvele, and published on Flickr. [...]

Detail of Nacimiento de Venus de William Adolphe Bouguereau by Dani Gómez. Click for full image (1,063px × 1,476px) This cartoon is the creation of Spanish artist Dani Gómez. He is a bachelor of journalism and audiovisual communications, has worked as illustrator and as film animator, and is currently doing his PhD in Audiovisual Communication [...]

Detail of L’innocence Somre by andrej2249 on pxleyes. Click for full image (1,200px × 1,241px) Some digital painters are bound to become truly great artists. Case in point is andrej2249 from Macedonia who created this stunning version of Bouguereau’s 1893 painting L’innocence. The image was the first-prize winning entry in a Painting Change Drawing Contest [...]

Detail of William A Bouguereau by rwpike on Freaking News. Click for full image (1,280px × 1,640px) In case you didn’t know: June 27 is Sunglasses Day. To celebrate Sunglasses Day at Freaking News, digital artists were invited to “add any kinds of sunglasses to works of art and movies“. The Sunglasses for Masses contest [...]

Detail of Holy Mary Bean by groundzero on FreakingNews. Click for full image (1,024px × 790px) This must be one of the most outrageous Remastered Bouguereaus on this site. The hilarious image depicts British comic actor Rowan Atkinson in his quintessential role as Mr. Bean – twice! It was one of the entries in the [...]

Detail of Psyche Pelingrada by Nora Mojas on DeviantArt. Click for full image (1,500×2,127px) Nora Mojas, publishing as MarthaLights on DeviantArt, is a graphic designer in Zagreb, Croatia. Her father, theater director Davor Mojas, is currently involved with a play (written by local celebrities Ivo Vojnovic and his sister Gene Vojnovic) for the Lero student [...]

Detail of The Birth of Meryl by Shorra on Worth1000. Click for full image. In June 2010, Worth1000 challenged digital artists to “use your photomanipulation skillz, take a celebrity image and depict them as some sort of godlike entity“. The fourth edition of this Celebrity Gods contest drew 26 entries, one of which was a [...]

Detail of The Remorse Of Alien by steveRS on Worth1000. Click for full image (947×836). In May 2010, photoshop site Worth1000 asked a simple question: If the Renaissance took place in more recent times, and the models were famous movie monsters/aliens, what would the artwork have looked like? The fifth edition of the Monster ModRen [...]