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Miracle Of The Milk Kiss – Bouguereau Meets Ron English

Detail of Miracle Of The Milk Kiss by Ron English. Click for full image (583×800) Pop iconoclast Ron English paints, infiltrates, reinvents and satirizes modern culture and its mainstream visual iconography on canvas, in song, and directly onto hundreds of … Continue reading

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Bouguereau’s Nut Gatherers Get A Dolly Makeover

The Nut Gatherers by Ekateryn Rosanoff on Flickr. Click for source. Chilean photography student Ekateryn Rosanoff, publishing as (◕ ω ◕)♡ on Flickr, is creative with dolls. She often places them in situations which are inspired by classical paintings. One … Continue reading

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Bouguereau's Wildlife, Contd.

Detail of The lioness and the antelope by ivanildo on Worth1000. Click for full image (823px × 1,024px) Shown above is the second-highest scoring remastered Bouguereau in the recent Animal Renaissance contest on Worth1000 (see the previous post for the … Continue reading

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Bouguereau Gets Copied, Cut And Pasted

Bouguereau paste-up by Žilda on Flickr. Click for bigger (1000 x 688) In 2006, self-taught painter Zilda from the French town of Rennes (website, Flickr, interview) decided to destroy all his canvases and start something new. He became a street … Continue reading

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Bouguereau's Cupid Gets A Japanese Makeover

Detail of Cupida by KaminariShirogane. Click for full image (900px × 1,273px). Manga (and its related art form Anime) originates from Japan. The genre includes a broad range of subjects: action-adventure, romance, sports and games, historical drama, comedy, science fiction … Continue reading

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Bouguereau In Search Of The Meaning Of Life

Detail of Solve et coagula by Corrado Vanelli on CGSociety. Click for full image (1,000px × 1,618px). Alchemy is both a philosophy and an ancient practice focused on the attempt to change base metals into gold, investigating the preparation of … Continue reading

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Bouguereau Goes For A Swim

Time for a little interlude here on Bouguereau Remastered. The pictures above and below are not strictly modernized versions of Bouguereau’s work but rather new uses of them. Australian ladies’ swimwear manufacturer Lisa Blue features a number of classic paintings … Continue reading

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Death of a Cyborg: Prize-winning Remastered Bouguereau

Detail of Death of a Cyborg by Shorra on Worth1000. Click for full image (936px × 809px) In August 2010, Worth1000 organized the seventh edition of their RoboRen contest. Digital artists were challenged to “take any work of art and … Continue reading

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Bouguereau’s Star Wars (2): Yoda

Detail of Yoda by BrunoSousa on Worth1000. Click for full image (586px × 1,000px). In the Star Wars universe, Yoda (wiki) is the ancient and revered Jedi Master, who lived his final years hiding on the swamp planet of Dagobah. … Continue reading

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New Milestone: Over 1,800 Remastered Bouguereaus!

Detail of Senza Pietá by Aaron Nagel. Click for full image (709px × 864px) If there was ever any doubt about the popularity of William Bouguereau’s art, this blog proves the contrary in a convincing way. Shown above is the … Continue reading

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