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Vermeer had found a “master forger” in the 1930s Pictures that the artist imagined and wanted to paint
and 1940s who, inspired by the master, created can perfectly complement and expand an existing
images such as an “Emmaus Meal”. Can you fool spectrum. With the right technical perfectionism, imag-
people with that aesthetic preference in those dec- ination and a vision, anything is possible. Masters
ades in which you are active yourself? In van from the WP&WR French Riviera Art Collective are in-
Megeren's case, through coquetry with a certain clas- spired by and perfectly appropriated the quirks of art-
sicism typical of the 1930s, which the later Vermeer ists from long past eras. They create emotions, the
also had on his palette. feeling of ownership of true beauty combined with a
unique history of origin.
History is unfair because it happened one way and
not another. Or because it didn't happen at all. Ac-
cording to Schiller, “world history is the judgment of
the world”. It remains to be seen how history re-
sponds to elaborate variations. On paintings that did
not exist in the variant before - or maybe they did?
What is certain is the unique beauty of each original
which can reflect the creative artistic spirit as well as
their variations.
The personal original version of a painting – with
this, each work of art ultimately has thus found its
place in history.