Category Archives: Pastoralia

The Outdoor Life

Amy Winehouse gets her Bouguereau Rehab

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 … Continue reading

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Bouguereau's Shepherdess Has Lost Her Sheep

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 … Continue reading

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Bouguereau Takes a Coffee Break

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 … Continue reading

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Bouguereau's Flowery Rebirth

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 … Continue reading

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Impossible Encounters 6: Bouguereau Meets Friedrich

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 … Continue reading

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Impossible Encounters 3: Bouguereau Meets Wyeth

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 … Continue reading

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Impossible Encounters 2: Bouguereau Meets Dali

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 … Continue reading

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Bouguereau Gets An Extreme Digital Makeover

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 … Continue reading

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What If Bouguereau Had Lived A Century Later?

Modern girls. Click for more. Bouguereau picked his models from the many girls and women who lived around his studio. In the 20st century that led to all his famous paintings. But what would Bouguereau’s art have looked like if … Continue reading

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Who's That Bouguereau Girl?

Bouguereau’s The Grape Picker, remastered by xbcompany. Click for full-size image. Nothing is known about the lovely girl in this picture and the photoshopper behind it. The (Spanish?) maker of the image hides behind the name xbcompany, and he (or … Continue reading

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