Bouguereau Quotes

If there were not anxiety behind those apples, Cézanne would not interest me any more than Bouguereau.

William Blake’s lustful sinners swirling through an eternal tempest … Bouguereau’s strangely erotic vision of Dante and Virgil watching two nude men locked in battle … Bayros’s tortured souls huddling beneath a hail-like torrent of scalding pellets and droplets of fire … Salvador Dalí’s eccentric series of watercolors and woodcuts … and Doré’s huge collection of black-and-white etchings depicting everything from the tunneled entrance to Hades … to winged Satan himself. Now it seemed that

I painted prettily like Bouguereau, people would not be ashamed to let themselves be painted, but I think that I have lost models because they thought that they were “badly done,” because “it was only pictures full of painting” that I did. The poor little souls are afraid of being compromised and that people will laugh at their portraits. But it is almost enough to make you lose heart when you think that you could do something if people had more good will. I cannot resign myself to saying - “sour grapes

Sending Mr. Macon a nod, Everett turned on his heel and strode down the hallway. Passing the curved staircase that was the centerpiece of the house, he was almost to the library when he noticed something that slowed his pace to a mere crawl. A priceless painting of a young lady—painted by none other than Bouguereau—seemed to have acquired a mustache placed inexpertly above the young lady’s lip. Leaning closer to the painting, he released a sigh when it quickly became evident that someone had, indeed, added his or her own touch to the masterpiece. Deciding that now was not the moment to spend dwelling on this particular situation, he tore his gaze from what was now a less-than-priceless painting and headed into the library.

Kursy Langdona poświęcone Dantemu zawierały zawsze odniesienia do znakomitych dzieł sztuki inspirowanych Piekłem. Oprócz Mapy Piekieł Botticellego mówił o Trzech Cieniach, prześwietnej rzeźbie Rodina z Wrót Piekieł, ilustracji Stradanusa przedstawiającej Flegiasa wiosłującego pośród ciał spływających Styksem... lubieżnych grzesznikach Williama Blake’a wirujących w wiecznym wichrze... dziwnie erotycznej wizji Bouguereau, w której Dante i Wergiliusz przyglądają się walce nagich młodzieńców... udręczonych duszach Bayrosa, cierpiących pod strumieniami rozgrzanych do czerwoności kamieni i sypiących się z nieba płomieni... serii drzeworytów i akwareli Salvadora Dalego... i wreszcie o cyklu czarno-białych rycin, które przedstawiały pełen obraz piekieł, od ich wrót aż po legowisko skrzydlatego Szatana, autorstwa Gustave’a Doré. Jednakże dopiero dziś zrozumiał, że okrutna