Detail of Leia by Onepixel on Worth1000. Click for full image (1,000px × 1,500px) In the next few weeks Bouguereau Remastered is dedicated to the stars of the Star Wars saga. We start the series with this portrait of Leia [wiki]. Princess Leia Organa as an adult is portrayed by actress Carrie Fisher in four [...]

Detail of Modern Girl by DaemonDCLXVI on Worth1000. Click for full image (764px × 900px). In July 2010, photoshop site Worth1000 challenged digital artists to “add bling to classic art”. In the third edition of the popular Pimp My Ren contest they were invited to “show us today’s big bling, hip culture as seen thru [...]

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 William Bouguereau by Tonebarge on Worth1000. Click for bigger (1,023px × 692px) What would William Bouguereau have looked like if he lived in our days? The answer could be as shown above. This portrait of a 21st century Bouguereau was created by digital artist Tonebarge for the fifth edition of the Pygmalion contest [...]

Detail of Scarlett Johansson Profile by AzureSky on FreakingNews. Click for full image. In his near-80 year long life William Bouguereau created around 700 works of art. No less than 200 of his masterpieces have now been inspirational sources for contemporary artists. Whether using traditional techniques or computer software, these artists pay homage to the [...]

Detail of Pretty Girl by johnx1 on FreakingNews. Click for full image. On April 29, 2010 American actress Uma Thurman hit the big four zero. Thurman started modelling at the age of fifteen, before making her film debut, aged 18, in teen comedy Johnny Be Good. In the same year (1988), she appeared in three [...]

Detail of The Invisible Man by ParasiteDemon on Worth1000. Click for full image. This strange portrait was created in 2006 by ParasiteDemon for a Monster ModRen contest on Worth1000. I should have been included here a long time ago but it appeared impossible to find the original Bouguereau painting. As it turns out the source [...]

Detail of Girl Mosaic by alexie on Worth1000. Click for full image. In January 2010, Worth1000 organized a contest exclusively for beginning digital artists. The challenge was to generate a mosaic using photo manipulation software. Contestants were warned not to use pre-existing “mosaic” filters in the software, but to build up the mosaic effect themselves. [...]

Detail of Ziyi Zhang by Mandrak on Worth1000. Click for full image Chinese singer and actress Ziyi Zhang [wiki] is rapidly conquering the international movie world. Already a star in her native China, she is now poised to become a celebrated Hollywood actress. Shown above is Ziyi Zhang in a Remastered Bouguereau. The image was [...]

Detail of Bouguereau and vintage face by Kelly Price-Colston. Click for full image on Flickr. Kelly Price-Colston from Arkansas, USA, operating under the name paperballet (website, MySpace, Flickr), calls herself a mixed media artist. In 2008 she created an online Facial Mutations exhibition on Blue Ruin Gallery. In her own words: “this series is an [...]