The painter Gennady Aleksandrovich Gerasimov was born in 1933 in the Aleisky grain farm of the Altai Territory. From 1956 to 1960, he studied at the Minsk Art College in the class of Lev Meyerovich Leitman. Gerasimov has been a member of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR since 1967.
Since 1961, he has participated in local, regional and republican exhibitions as well as the exhibitions that have been arranged abroad. Gerasimov has participated twice in the work of watercolor groups.
Gennady Gerasimov worked in the portrait genre (“Portrait of the Captain of the Nuclear-Powered Icebreaker ‘Lenin’ Pavel Ponomarev”, “Sami Reindeer Herder from Lovozero — Pyotr Andreevich Dmitriev”, “Portrait of the Chief Power Engineer of the Murmansk Fishing Port Sergey Ivanovich Degtyarev”) and landscape painting, including industrial scenes. The main motifs of the artist’s work were the northern nature, the everyday life of Murmansk and, of course, people.
The artist devoted a lot of time to trips, from which he brought a large number of sketches and studies for his future paintings and graphic works. The painter tended to depict large-scale panoramic landscapes with large bodies of water. In his works, Gennady Gerasimov sought to depict, if not the conquest of the northern expanses, then, in any case, their industrial development.
The artist dedicated his work of the same name to the Kola Bay. He depicted small fishing vessels moving along the waterway of the bay. Gennady Gerasimov chose a high vantage point with a panoramic view of the water surface between the hills.
The Kola Bay is a fjord-shaped bay of the Barents Sea that stretches into the mainland for almost 60 kilometers and is surrounded by hills that are about 350 meters high. Kildin Sámi people traditionally used the shores of the bay for fishing. There are various options for the name of the bay — the Kola Bay, the Kola Fjord, Kulvun (“kull” is translated from the Sami language as “fish”, and “vun” as “bay”). The first mention of the Kola Bay is found in the documents of Lieutenant Vinkov in 1741. In the early 19th century, Fedor Petrovich Litke and Mikhail Frantsevich Reinecke made hydrographic expeditions along the Kola Bay to document the area more extensively.
Since 1961, he has participated in local, regional and republican exhibitions as well as the exhibitions that have been arranged abroad. Gerasimov has participated twice in the work of watercolor groups.
Gennady Gerasimov worked in the portrait genre (“Portrait of the Captain of the Nuclear-Powered Icebreaker ‘Lenin’ Pavel Ponomarev”, “Sami Reindeer Herder from Lovozero — Pyotr Andreevich Dmitriev”, “Portrait of the Chief Power Engineer of the Murmansk Fishing Port Sergey Ivanovich Degtyarev”) and landscape painting, including industrial scenes. The main motifs of the artist’s work were the northern nature, the everyday life of Murmansk and, of course, people.
The artist devoted a lot of time to trips, from which he brought a large number of sketches and studies for his future paintings and graphic works. The painter tended to depict large-scale panoramic landscapes with large bodies of water. In his works, Gennady Gerasimov sought to depict, if not the conquest of the northern expanses, then, in any case, their industrial development.
The artist dedicated his work of the same name to the Kola Bay. He depicted small fishing vessels moving along the waterway of the bay. Gennady Gerasimov chose a high vantage point with a panoramic view of the water surface between the hills.
The Kola Bay is a fjord-shaped bay of the Barents Sea that stretches into the mainland for almost 60 kilometers and is surrounded by hills that are about 350 meters high. Kildin Sámi people traditionally used the shores of the bay for fishing. There are various options for the name of the bay — the Kola Bay, the Kola Fjord, Kulvun (“kull” is translated from the Sami language as “fish”, and “vun” as “bay”). The first mention of the Kola Bay is found in the documents of Lieutenant Vinkov in 1741. In the early 19th century, Fedor Petrovich Litke and Mikhail Frantsevich Reinecke made hydrographic expeditions along the Kola Bay to document the area more extensively.
