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Chopped Beef: Bouguereau Vachified
Bouguerau’s Elegy: the chopped version (left) and the 1899 original
It’s always great to see what happens in the Photoshop contests on Worth1000: Bouguereau Cow
The challenge in this contest was: photoshop a cow in any manner you like. This was one of the best entries: Elegy (or Douleur d’amour) by French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
[From Wikipedia:] In his own time, Bouguereau was considered to be one of the greatest painters in the world. In 1900, his contemporaries Degas and Monet reportedly named him as most likely to be remembered as the greatest 19th-century French painter by the year 2000, although with Degas’ famous trenchant wit, and the aesthetic tendencies of the two Impressionists, it is possible the statement was meant as an ironic comment on the taste of the future public.
Bouguereau’s works were eagerly bought, at high prices, especially by American millionaires. After about 1920, Bouguereau fell into disrepute. Some assert this may have been consciously engineered by the new “art expert establishment”, who resented his former opposition to new developments in painting, but it is likely that more profound societal factors were instrumental to this enormous shift in taste and sensibility. For decades, his name was not even mentioned in encyclopedias. Today, over one hundred museums throughout the world exhibit his works.
Tue 02-Oct-07 | Posted in: Art & Heritage, Bouguereau
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