Sergey Gerasimov

1885 - 1964

Sergey Gerasimov
Modern
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Sergey Gerasimov

Born 1885 Died 1964

The Artistic Journey of Sergey Gerasimov Sergey Vasilyevich Gerasimov was a Soviet and Russian painter who studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture between 1907 and 1912. During his formative years, he was a student of the Russian Impressionist Konstantin Korovin and later joined the Makovets group. His early watercolors are considered masterpieces, exhibiting a tendency toward modernism. In the 1920s and 1930s, Gerasimov taught at the state art school Vkhutemas, creating posters and works sympathetic to the new Communist government in a style later known as Socia…

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An Interactive Constellation

The Subject Atlas

A chart of Sergey Gerasimov's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.

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Spokes — Subject

Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.

Rings — Career Period

Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.

Threads — Shared Context

Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.