Death of a cyborg

Here's Shorra's "Death of a Cyborg," and it's lovely.

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Shouldn’t that be “Death of an Android”?
- destroy_all_humans
  
  only if there are no biological parts, I’m guessing this one had real nose hair.
  - ldobe
    
    Perhaps it’s a Ghost in the Shell style cyborg. Full prosthetic body with a living brain in a titanium skull
    - Cynical
      
      Given that the painting shares a title with the first song in the Ghost in the Shell soundtrack, that’s probably pretty likely.
      /geek
- http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch
  
  “Death of a Cyborg” is more poignant. Those stinking andies can go to hell.
RadioGuy

Makes me think of Similo, a really fantastic short film from 2006.
http://www.facebook.com/esmeralda.ruppspangle Esmeralda Rupp-Spangle

Lovely. I do wish there was a larger version that you could see- I am not finding it on her page.
- http://www.facebook.com/sagebrushgardener Greg McCann
  
  Larger image here: http://homeiswheretheharddiskis.wordpress.com/tag/shorra/
http://twitter.com/Brainspore Tim Harrington

Looks like a Biblical scene.

“Can you fix it?”
“Sure, but it will take about three days.”
- fuzzyfuzzyfungus
  
  Cyborg Jesus suffered almost 72 hours of unscheduled downtime for your sins…
  
  Do you know how long he is going to have to work to get his 5 9s uptime back?
Romke Soldaat

There’s a lot more of that stuff here: http://www.bouguereau.net/
Mitchell Glaser

I sing the body electric.
http://twitter.com/xangadix xangadix

Looks an awful lot like the First mourning (Bouguereau, 1888) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Mourning ;)

but it’s a nice twist, I take it, this is the first cyborg to die.
http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

Wow. That is just all kinds of wonderful. Oddly, I am not finding it anywhere on the site linked and all of the other work there seems to be very different from this piece.
ffabian

Is there a way to buy a print of this?
LinkMan

Here is the work on the photoshopist’s deviantART page:

http://shorra.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24#/d35io35

Sadly it doesn’t appear to be available as a print.

I also like this one:

http://shorra.deviantart.com/art/Night-At-The-Museum-190668978
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=628020069 Debra Mason

Thanks for the feedback everyone and to those of you that wanted to buy it. As has been mentioned it’s actually a re-working of a Bouguereau painting and was intended for the web and so isn’t suitable for printing. It was created for this contest on Worth1000.com

http://fx.worth1000.com/contests/25627/roboren-7