A master copy of William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s painting The Song of Love, 1889.
Materials:
Acrylic primed linen
Walnut oil
Alkyd medium
Natural and synthetic brushes
(no.8 flat sable, no. 0 nylon liner, no.4 round sable)
Transfer paper
Oil colors (titanium white, ivory black, yellow ochre, burnt umber, cad red lt, cad yel, ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) was a French academic artist who began his career at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris with depictions of Classical myths and legends, but soon came into demand in France and the United States for portraiture and decorative works. Although his work was ridiculed by contemporary artists such as Edgar Degas and Vincent van Gogh as overly finished and soft, Bouguereau was granted lavish praise during his lifetime, including multiple awards at the Salon de Paris. Of his highly polished, idealistic style, in which he used models with porcelain-like skin and depicted provincial themes, Bouguereau said "There's only one kind of painting. It's the painting that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese and Titian."
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