i love Bouguereau's paintings, they r insane. what art movement was he part of? i know he was around the mid/late 1800's
"William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 – August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William 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." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William-Ado… He was not part of any art movement (unless you insist on calling 19th century French academicism a "movement"). Info. on academic art (and more artists); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_pa… Also; http://art-for-a-change.com/blog/.../08/…
Realist - and pretty boring at that compared to his impressionist contemporaries, or the pre-Raphaelites.
