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Frogsmoke takes a few days off. Enjoy Noël and welcome back here by Saturday Sunday! Sexy Santa, based on William Bouguereau's Woman with Seashell While Frogsmoke takes a break why not take a look at my other blog: Bouguereau Remastered. It's the world's largest online museum of photoshopped versions of the art by French 19th [...]
Posted: Thu 24-Dec-09
If you haven't visited Bouguereau Remastered yet, join the growing crowd: French 19th century painter William Bouguereau is in Halloween mode this week. With four new spooky acquisitions, the virtual museum of photoshopped Bouguereaus is rapidly approaching one thousand works of art! Welcome!
Posted: Fri 31-Oct-08
In the summer all French go to the beach. They even did it in the 19th century. Master painter William Bouguereau was there, and portrayed some lovely local beach girls: Discover more photoshopped masterpieces of bathing beauties (including Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett) on Bouguereau Remastered.
Posted: Tue 01-Jul-08
Psychedelic Heaven, The Sisters That Aren't, Stevie Nicks Turning 60, Butthead in Love… My other blog Bouguereau Remastered gets updated several times a week. Discover hundreds of works by French master William Bouguereau like you've never seen them before: photoshopped by talented digital artists from all over the world. Definitely worth a visit!
Posted: Tue 10-Jun-08
[youtube]JCuPjlzzz1E[/youtube] Batugereau is a wonderful morphing video (3:15) about the women in William Bouguereau's paintings. The music (Nabucco) makes it even better. The video ends with a photoshop image of "latiaboligrafa" — whoever she is. See also: Bouguereau Remastered
Posted: Thu 15-May-08
French 19th century master painter William Bouguereau remains the undisputed source of inspiration for talented photoshoppers. Shown above are fragments of Wet Alien (based on Bouguereau's Wet Cupid, 1891) and a double portrait of Katie Holmes, as mother and as child (based on Bouguereau's The Seashell, 1871). Both remastered versions were first-prize winners on photoshop [...]
Posted: Tue 13-May-08
Discover the latest addition to the Bouguereau Remastered blog: this magnificent photoshopped Le Ravissement de Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Posted: Fri 09-May-08
Welcome to the world’s largest virtual museum of photoshopped masterpieces by French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. On Bouguereau Remastered you will discover artwork that never ceases to amaze you. In more than 100 galleries and 500 images, the planet’s most talented digital artists take over where Bouguereau left off — over a century ago. On Bouguereau [...]
Posted: Thu 01-May-08
Andie turning 50. Click for bigger picture. Today’s Bouguereau rip-off comes from FreakingNews. This photoshopped version is based on William Bouguereau’s original 1870 work Lady with Glove (view original). It was one of the entries in the "Andie MacDowell" contest, celebrating the 50th birthday of the American actress. View all contest entries | Bouguereau (wiki) [...]
Posted: Wed 23-Apr-08
Conan turning 45. Click for bigger picture. Today’s Bouguereau rip-off comes from FreakingNews. This photoshopped version is based on William Bouguereau’s original 1875 work Vendangeuse (The Grape Picker, view original). It was one of the entries in the “Conan O'Brien” contest, celebrating the 45th birthday of the American talkshow host. View all contest entries | [...]
Posted: Mon 21-Apr-08
Such a beautiful child…and he has his father's eyes. Click for bigger picture. Today’s Bouguereau rip-off comes from FreakingNews. This photoshopped version is based on William Bouguereau’s original 1869 work Admiration Maternelle (Maternal Admiration, view original). It was the first-prize winning entry in the “Alien Paintings” contest. (There are several other Bouguereau rip-offs in the [...]
Posted: Thu 10-Apr-08
Detail of L'Orage 3D. Click image to view all. Today’s Bouguereau rip-off comes from Worth1000. This photoshopped version is based on William Bouguereau’s original 1874 work L'Orage (The Storm, view original). It was one of the entries in the Counterfeit Art contest, in which participants were challenged to "take any famous painting or artwork and [...]
Posted: Mon 07-Apr-08
Reading by candlelight. Click to view larger image. France didn't join Earth Day last weekend. Nearly 400 cities in 35 countries switched off the lights for an hour on 29 March, but the French kept them on. The little girl shown above was the exception. It's a photoshopped version of Bouguereau's original 1884 work La [...]
Posted: Tue 01-Apr-08
Happy Easter Everyone! This photoshopped portrait was inspired by William Bouguereau's 1896 work Les Prunes (Plums, view original), and comes to you via FreakingNews.
Posted: Sun 23-Mar-08
These three lovely girls have one thing in common: they're all photoshopped Bouguereau rip-offs in the Worth1000 MangaRen challenge: For this contest, you're to create Manga-ized versions of classical works of art. For those of you living in a cave, Manga is a style of cartooning and animation that hails from Japan. View all contest [...]
Posted: Fri 21-Mar-08