Artistic Challenge #41: William Bouguereau

[Denise]

Many thanks voting for my entry 'Sweet Mystery' in the Georgia O'Keeffe artistic challenge. I was honored by the win.

Here is a list of the artists previously covered:
#01 Vincent Van Gogh
#02 Andy Warhol
#03 Salvador Dali
#04 Edvard Munch
#05 Roy Lichtenstein
#06 Cindy Sherman
#07 Rene Magritte
#08 Richard Avedon
#09 Vivian Maier
#10 Steve McCurry
#11 Paul Strand
#12 Robin Rhode
#13 Guido Danielle
#14 Chema Madoz
#15 Mike Stimpson
#16 Norman Rockwell
#17 Helen Levitt
#18 Claude Monet
#19 Gustav Klimt
#20 Rene Magritte
#21 Casper David Friedrich
#22 Max Dupain
#23 David Hockney
#24 Ansel Adams
#25 Yousef Karsh
#26 Edward Steichen
#27 Jack Vettriano
#28 Andy Goldsworthy
#29 Ben Heine
#30 Max Dupain
#31 Stanley Kubrick
#32 Jay Maisel
#33 Tamara de Lempicka
#34 Bauhaus
#35 Michael Elliott
#36 A Southeast Asian Icon
#37 August Renoir
#38 Margaret Bourke-White
#39 John Piper
#40 Georgia O'Keeffe

And now for the Artist Challenge #41 - William-Adolphe Bouguereau

The challenge is to take a photograph recreating one of Bouguereau's paintings, or to photograph something in the style that is reminiscent of his work, or to take a concept of one of his paintings and make it your own. Bougureau is my favorite artist.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 - August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. Bouguereau was a staunch traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classical subjects with a heavy emphasis on the female human body. Although he created an idealized world, his almost photo-realistic style was popular with rich art patrons. He was very famous in his time but today his work receives relatively little attention compared to the popularity of the Impressionists.

These are some examples of his work:

http://www.bouguereau.org/The-Bohemian-1890-large.html

http://www.bouguereau.org/La-Tricoteuse-%28The-Little-Knitter%29-large.html

http://www.bouguereau.org/Rest-at-Harvest-1865-large.html

http://www.bouguereau.org/Les-Noisettes-%28Hazelnuts%29-%28or-The-Nut-Gatherers%29-large.html

http://www.bouguereau.org/La-Tricoteuse-%28The-Little-Knitter%29-large.html

The challenge starts now and ends on November 10, 2012 at midnight CST, entries must be taken between these dates.

-> Please tag your entries: ac-bouguereau

This might be a difficult challenge but I'm hoping some of you will take it on. I'm looking forward to your entries. Denise Daly

[summerfield]

yay! congratulations, denise. terrific choice of artist. i am familiar with bouguereau's work. i'll try to come up with something that is definitely not naked. :-)

[Denise]

@summerfield Great....I'm glad to hear that you are up for the challenge.

[Sandi]

@denisedaly I had tons of fun with this one! What a great idea to try to emmulate a famous painter.

[Denise]

Glad to hear you enjoyed the challenge. It doesn't look like many people are going to participate.

[Kathy Burzynski]

Oh I really wanted to do this. I have some beautiful young models I could use but I will be gone over the weekend. I am hoping I will be able to sneak in a pic Saturday morning and download it Sunday night. Like Summerfield they will not be naked. Although their little toddler brother likes to take off his clothes and run around the house all natural - but I won't take any pictures of that lol.

How disappointing more people are not participating.

[Denise]

@myhrhelper Great...I'm looking forward to your entry.

[summerfield]

@denisedaly - the challenge coincided with three or four other challenges so it didn't garner much attention.

sorry, it took me a while to shoot my entry as it was quite a busy week. i would guess that more entries will be posted as it is the weekend.

[Denise]

This challenge is closed. Thanks to all who entered. Voting starts soon.