Detail of Jeune Femme Allant a la Fontaine by Joshua LaRock. Click for full image.
American realistic painter Joshua LaRock (b. 1982) didn’t have serious artistic aspirations until a few years ago. Only as recently as in 2006 he started studying classical drawing and painting. Since then, many of his works have been exhibited, and he [...]

Detail of Drew by Famous58 on Worth1000. Click for full image.
February 22, 2010 marks the 35th birthday of American actress, film producer and film director Drew Barrymore [wiki]. She first appeared in an advertisement when she was eleven months old, and after her breakout appearance in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial she quickly became one of Hollywood’s [...]

Rehab by mateusarc on Worth1000. Click for full image.
This portrait of British singer Amy Winehouse [wiki] was created by mateusarc for the 12th edition of the Modern Renaissance contest on Worth1000. Digital artists were challenged to “put any modern celebrity, actor or popular culture figure as a substitute for the model of a painting or [...]

Leave them alone and they’ll come home by sammydavisdog on Flickr. Click for source.
Shown here is a funny concoction of three different images, including Bouguereau’s 1887 work Jeune Bergère Debout (Young Shepherdess Standing). It was created by Flickr member sammydavisdog. The photo of the tree (a Quercus robur) was found on Wikipedia, and the two [...]

Detail of Espresso Angel by Karen Eland. Click for full image.
People have been spoofing iconic works of art for decades as a form of creative, or re-creative, expression. Following this time-honored tradition is American artist Karen Eland [website]. Her versions of classic masterpieces include works by Matisse, Picasso, and of course Bouguereau. But instead of [...]

Detail of Bouguereau Reborn, by Glockman on PXLEyes.com. Click for full image.
What you see here is a very clever photoshop manipulation. It was created by American digital artist Glockman for a contest on PXLEyes.com in November 2009. Participants were challenged to photoshop a picture of a red flower (see below). The artist used Bouguereau’s 1884 [...]

Detail of Fog by Maxbee on Worth1000. Click for full image.
Caspar David Friedrich [wiki] was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important of the movement. His life coincided with that of William Bouguereau for just 14 years. One of Friedrich’s most famous works, The wanderer above the sea of fog, dates [...]

Other World by EyEars. Click for bigger.
American painter Andrew Newell Wyeth (who died earlier this year) was a realist painter, who enjoyed great popularity with the American public. One of his best known works is the 1948 painting Christina’s World [wiki], depicting a young paralyzed woman crawling across a field.
For a photoshop contest on Worth1000, [...]

Kiss Goodnight by CraftLord on Worth1000. Click for bigger.
Salvador Dali and William Bouguereau were contemporaries for just one year: Dali was born in 1904 and Bouguereau died in 1905. Otherwise, the two artists had nothing in common, except that they were skilled technicians, inspired by Renaissance masters.
If the two had ever been given the opportunity [...]

Detail of Bouguereau’s Harvester by Gionatan Lombardi. Click for full image.
Italian digital artist Gionatan Lombardi [website] created this colorful version of Bouguereau’s 1868 work Moissonneuse (The Harvester). In his own words:
I started to draw and paint since my childhood under the guide of my aunt, who’s a landscape painter. During my academic education I was [...]