From the age of twelve, Hendrik Averkamp was apprenticed to a poor drawing teacher, an apprenticeship that did not last long as the master fell victim to a plague epidemic. Around the age of eighteen, Averkamp moved to Amsterdam, where he began to study painting under the Danish artist Pieter Isachsz. Also in Averkamp’s early works there is a noticeable influence of the Flemish school, in particular the landscape painter Gilisse van Koninxloo.

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Buying a painting by an “unscrupulous” artist, which will turn out to be an exact copy of someone’s style and vision, a copy of a certain trend.
Result: the impossibility of resale (no auction and no gallery will not take such a work for sale, because the truth will quickly be revealed). The work will not be quoted on the art market in the future because of the low estimate of its quality and because of the lack of any artistic value.

Buy an interior painting from a designer who has not yet succeeded as an artist.
Result: the inability to resell (no art dealers take such work for sale, designers create just decorative works. Beautiful, but having no artistic value).

We are not saying that modern interior paintings and abstract copies have no right to life. They can like, they can appeal to the eye and evoke emotion.

Our task is to give you the information to make a decision and the opportunity to weigh the pros and cons. If you want to own a painting with artistic value and be able to dispose of it in the future, you should pay attention to experienced artists who are established in the profession and have their own bright personality and reputation in the art community. We know firsthand that buying an expensive painting is not an easy decision that requires thinking, and we are always ready to support you on your way to art!

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Painting by contemporary artists
In our opinion, there is definitely a difference. By contemporary painting we mean the work of artists who have:

Own style.
The artist’s work is recognizable. Having seen a few paintings, you are likely to recognize other works of this master in the future.

Their own technique.
Artists have their own secrets as well as sources of inspiration in both everyday things and world painting. They use individual techniques that are honed over the years and are the result of their individual search.

A unique vision or subject matter.
Here we are talking about not copying anyone else’s work exactly.

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“Mona Lisa” had a special significance in the life of the artist – it is no secret that sometimes, fascinated by something new, he was very reluctant to return to the interrupted work. However, over the “Mona Lisa”, he worked with passion and enthusiasm. Why?

It is unclear exactly who the portrait depicts. Was it the wife of the merchant del Giocondo? Or the same woman who posed for “Lady with an ermine”? There is even a version that as a model for the Mona Lisa was Salai – one of the artist’s apprentices, depicted by him in at least two other paintings.
What color was the original color of Gioconda’s dress? Apparently, Leonardo again experimented with paints, and again unsuccessfully, so that nothing remained of the original color of the sleeves. Contemporaries, by the way, admired the luxurious coloring of the painting.
And finally, the mysterious half-smile – is she smiling at all, or is it just an illusion, skillfully created by the artist through shadows in the corners of the lips?

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But the bull in Serov’s painting is not at all white as he is supposed to be according to the legend, but of brown color and it looks more like a bull on ancient Greek vessels than a bull of ancient Greek myth. Why Serov deviates from the reliability of the facts? The artist as if playing with artistic memories: his abduction of Europe is not so much a representation of the myth as the creation of the emblem of the whole world of Greek art. For example, the diving dolphins remind him of the paintings of Dionysus cilicus by the 6th century B.C. Greek master Execius, the brown bull reminds him of the paintings of red-figure vases.

The unexpectedly lively and meaningful gaze of the Zeus bull emphasizes the stiffness of the motionless face-face of Europa, a mask of the archaic crust, a kind of symbol of all Greek art. One of the meanings of the name “Europe” – “wide-eyed”, which is surprisingly consonant with the image of the face of Europe, which gives Serov.
Serov performed several scenic versions of the Abduction of Europe, as well as the sculpture – a small statuette, repeating the composition of the painting. Why is this ancient Greek story so exciting to artists around the world, of all times and all nations?

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