Pusuits by Joe Park. Click for full image.
Joe Park (1964) is a Canadian-born painter who now lives in Seattle and Washington, USA. Sheila Farr, art critic at the Seattle Times wrote about him:
“Joseph Park’s imagery has a quaint, paint-by-number simplicity that at one time would have seemed odd for a guy who can handle paint [...]

A reenactment of Bouguereau’s Dante and Virgil in Hell. Click for full-size image.
The Raw Files is a project created by Mclain (Mac) of Swift Images & Rob of twisted figure fotography. The premiss of their project involves each photographer working with a model over the course of a year and all parties sharing their experiences.
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Detail of Violina by Marcelo Halmenschlager. Click for full image (1464px × 1836px).
Brazilan-born Marcelo Halmenschlager [website] yearned for a career in medicine but ended up studying psychology. Feeling isolated and tormented by depression, he discovered his passion for painting, as therapy. Fearing for his personal safety in regards to his sexual orientation and personal opinions, [...]

Detail of Inferno Moderno by hugh man on Flickr. Click for full image.
Shown here is a dramatic photo montage created by Flickr member hugh man. The title “inferno moderno” is probably derived from the Bouguereau painting in the background, Dante et Virgile aux Enfers (Dante and Virgil in Hell, 1850). The picture caption “Romanticism has [...]

Detail of First Mourning by sjm1010 and esstera on DeviantArt. Click for full image.
In this stunning montage Bouguereau’s 20th-century academic realism meets 21st-century photorealism. This piece is a transcontinental collaboration between American digital artist Stephen (operating as sjm1010 on DeviantArt) and Magdalena (aka esstera) from Croatia. It was published on DeviantArt in November 2009. The [...]

Detail of Bouguereau & Calvin & Hobbes by torgar on Worth1000. Click for full image.
The comic stories of Calvin and Hobbes [wiki] follow the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative six-year old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic stuffed tiger. The strip was syndicated daily from 1985 to 1995. At its height, Calvin and [...]

Detail of Cat Bath by AZRainman. Click for full-size image.
What you see here is one of the most elaborate mash-ups of two paintings on Bouguereau Remastered. This creation, entitled Cat Bath, by American digital artist AZRainman combines Bouguereau’s 1873 work Nymphes et Satyre (Nymphs and Satyr) with the painting A Tiger and a Serpent by [...]

Red Light Venus by an unknown artist. Click for bigger.
This image has been added as the 1400th(!) Remastered Bouguereau to our online museum of contemporary versions of Bouguereau’s work. The picture was originally published in 2008 on Russian site Yandex. It was submitted by a certain Carabaas from Kiev in the Ukraine, but it [...]

Liberty Venus, created by an unknown Russian digital artist. Click for full image.
We all know that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French to the Americans. The statue was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and the structural engineering came from Gustave Eiffel’s company. Both men were contemporaries of William Bouguereau.
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Vénus de souche and Vinus by Francine Noël. Click for more details.
Canadian painter and sculptor Francine Noël [website] creates art from collections of natural materials and recuperated objects. In her own words:
These materials lend themselves to new forms without completely losing their own initial selves. Their origins are maintained in the details, but when [...]