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…