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 exploration of [...]

Detail of Study: head of a young girl by nimroderriver. Click for full image.
Not all Remastered Bouguereaus on this site are photoshopped works. Many artists use traditional tools to create contemporary versions of Bouguereau’s classic paintings. Case in point is Emma (surname unknown), publishing as nimroderriver on DeviantArt. Currently a Fine Art student in England, [...]

Girl study by dawor on DeviantArt. Click for bigger.
This stunning portrait is not a true Remastered Bouguereau, but is so close to Bouguereau’s style that it deserves a place here. The digital image was created by 24-year old Croatian artist dawor, and published on DeviantArt.
The portrait is probably inspired by Bouguereau’s famous 1890 portrait of [...]

Detail of Lady Robot with Glove at Choppix.com, based on Bouguereau’s 1870 work Lady with Glove. Click for full-size image (885px × 1101px)
This beautiful work is called Bouguereau Lady Robot With Glove. It’s published on photoshop contest site Choppix.com, but unfortunately the name of its creator is not mentioned. The image is presented as a [...]

Close up of Adolphe-William Bouguereau by David Patel. Click for full image.
David Patel [blog] [myspace] [facebook] [deviantart] is a 21-year young Californian caricature artist at the San Diego wild animal park. His motto is “digital art isnt art“, so he uses traditional tools to create his artwork. The Bouguereau caricature shown above is one of [...]

Bouguereau Portrait In Butterflies, Flowers And Birds by Gilberto Viciedo. Click for large image.
Look closely at this portrait and you’ll see it’s a mosaic of many smaller images. This amazing work was created by Cuban exile Gilberto Viciedo, who has developed a technique to create photo mosaics, which he describes in detail on his website. [...]

Michelle Pfeiffer by torgar, inspired by William Bouguereau’s Boucles d’Oreilles (The earrings, 1891). Click for 624px × 989px image.
This stunning portrait of American actress Michelle Pfeiffer was one of the entries in the 11th edition of the Modern Renaissance contest on Worth1000, in July 2009. The challenge: If the renaissance took place in modern times, [...]

Pamela Bouguereau by Serge Birault. Click for full view.
French digital artist Serge Birault (website) loves to create illusions of fairies and princesses, without falling into the trap of the stereotypes and clichés of the genre. The image shown above is an experiment, for which William Bouguereau’s 1879 self-portrait provided the inspiration. In Birault’s own words:
As [...]