19th Century French Academic Painter William Bouguereau #4k #painting #nudes #mythology #realism - Video

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As a French Academic Painter William Bouguereau was holding onto ideals of realism and finish in his paintings long after Manet, Courbet, Cezanne and others had created vibrant alternatives to academic ideals

William-Adolphe Bouguereau was born in La Rochelle, France, on 30 November 1825 and was still the end of his life in 1905. Bouguereau was still churning out academic paintings at a time when Matisse Picasso and others were tearing open the visible world.

But….what draws us back to Bouguereau perhaps more than any other academic painters isn’t his accuracy in rendering the visible world but really his penetrating psychological realism.

Thousands of artists have painted pandora and the drama of her opening the the box or jar. But this might be my favorite. Pandora’s face is anything but a character of reckless curiosity,

tentative as if she is already in the thick of presentiments of what the world will become when she opens the lid. It is a tender portrait of a women at the very threshold of precipice of a transformed world with complex emotions.