Ninfas e Sátiro
Venus
O Rapto de Psiqué
Galeria Online de Bouguereau
Biografia de Bouguereau
Nos finais do século XIX, enquanto o mundo artístico acelarava vertiginosamente em direcção aos modernismos, artistas havia que se mantiveram fieis aos velhos cânones classicistas. William Bouguereau foi um deles. Quase esquecido, e intelectualmente desvalorizado pela nata artística, é no entanto um artista cuja obra vale a pena conhecer. Mesmo sabendo que Bouguereau se aplicava no seu meticuloso estilismo enquanto à sua volta as mais vibrantes experiências artística impressionistas desbravavam novos territórios artísticos, a aparente inocência dos quadros de Bouguereau é sedutora.
"William Bouguereau is unquestionably one of history's greatest artistic geniuses. Yet in the past century, his reputation and unparalleled accomplishments have undergone a libelous, dishonest, relentless and systematic assault of immense proportions. His name was stricken from most history texts and when included it was only to blindly, degrade and disparage him and his work. Yet, as we shall see, it was he who single handedly opened the French academies to women, and it was he who was arguably the greatest painter of the human figure in all of art history. His figures come to life like no previous artist has ever before or ever since achieved. He wasn’t just the best ever at painting human anatomy, more importantly he captured the tender and subtlest nuances of personality and mood. Bouguereau caught the very souls and spirits of his subjects much like Rembrandt. Rembrandt is said to have captured the soul of age. Bouguereau captured the soul of youth."
(Biography of William Bouguereau, by Damien Bartoli)
