Top: Gold winner Schoolgirl Chibi Moon. Bottom: Silver winner William Bouguereau Manga. Click each for full picture.

These lovely portraits in Japanese Manga style were the winners in the MangaRen contest on Worth1000 in September 2008. Gold winner Schoolgirl Chibi Moon was created by digital artist copycatfish. The picture is a remastered version of Bouguereau’s 1894 work Paquerettes (Daisies). Silver winner William Bouguereau Manga was the creation of HogHeaven. The photoshopped picture is inspired by Bouguereau’s Portrait de Gabrielle Cot (Portrait of Gabrielle Cot, 1890).

The contest drew 54 entries, 11 of which were remastered Bouguereaus. They are all listed below. Click each to visit the galleries where you can find many more remastered version of the same paintings.

With these latest acquisitions, Bouguereau Remastered now has over 800 photoshopped Bouguereaus, displayed in 145 galleries!

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From Bouguereau’s work it’s obvious that our planet has been visited by aliens as early as in the nineteenth century. The French master was there to record it. Here are some paintings of Bouguereau’s close encounters with extraterrestrial civilizations. Click each picture to visit the galleries where you can find more remastered works.

Republican running mate Sarah Palin. Click for full image.

Whatever you may think of would-be Veep Sarah Palin she knows how to get publicity for herself. In her latest attempt to steal the headlines she posed for the greatest painter of all time, William Bouguereau (or not?). This remastered Bouguereau portrait, created by Brazilian digital artist Craving, was the second-prize winning entry in the Sarah Palin contest on FreakingNews, in September 2008. The work is based on Bouguereau’s original 1895 work La Brise du Printemps (Spring Breeze). Below you can compare the two. Click each to see them in larger format.

Sarah Palin joins other celebrities (such as Sharon Stone, Jennifer Connelly, Charlize Theron and Mona Lisa) in the Spring Breeze gallery here on Bouguereau Remastered.

Gold winner Palin 2008. Sarah Palin carrying John McCain to the White House?

With the US presidential elections hotting up it’s no surprise that Bouguereau is the artist of choice for photoshoppers who want to create political posters. The one above shows the republican ticket for the 2008 race. Created by digital artist midian, it was the winning entry in a News in Pictures contest on FreakingNews, in August 2008. The remastered work is based on Bouguereau’s original 1985 painting Fardeau Agreable (Not too Much to Carry). Below you can see both works side by side. Click each to view them in larger format.

Palin 2008 has been added to the Children group, where you can now find five remastered versions of the same painting.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is due out in 2009, Bouguereau wanted one of his art subjects in it, and was pleased to see they accepted his offer.

The picture shown above was the Silver Award winner in a Cinema Pygmalion contest on Worth1000 in August 2008. In this contest, digital artists were asked to take people or objects from famous works of art and include them in a scene from a familiar movie. This photoshopped version, created by wannabe, is based on a scene from a Harry Potter movie, and Bouguereau’s 1882 painting Les Noisettes (Hazelnuts). Both originals are shown below (click to access the Hazelnuts gallery):

In the same contest, no less than three other works by Bouguerau were remastered. Click each to access the gallery where you can find more photoshopped versions of the same paintings: