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Bouguereau Goes Punk

Detail of Portrait of a girl by DutchPuh on Worth1000. Click for full image (801px × 1,000px) In November 2010 Worth1000 organized a Punk-A-Ren contest, challenging digital artists to “punkitize classical works of art“. The contest drew 15 entries, two … Continue reading

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Bouguereau "Boldly Going Where No Painter Has Gone Before"

Detail of Seven-of-Nine by davidowens on Worth1000. Click for full image (782px × 908px) In September 2010, photoshop site Worth1000 challenged digital artists to “put elements of Star Trek into classical paintings”. This first edition of the Star Trek Ren … Continue reading

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Bouguereau's Star Wars (1): Princess Leia Organa

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 … Continue reading

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Bouguereau's "Big Bling" Wins Gold

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 … Continue reading

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Bouguereau Celebrates Sunglasses Day

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 … Continue reading

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Bouguereau Skips a Century (3)

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 … Continue reading

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Scarlett Johansson Opens 200th Gallery on Bouguereau Remastered

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 … Continue reading

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Happy Bouguereau Birthday to Uma Thurman

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, … Continue reading

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Found at last: Bouguereau's Invisible Man

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 … Continue reading

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First prize for digital Bouguereau Mosaic

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 … Continue reading

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