A portraitist is considered truly skillful if the viewers can instantly recognize the person depicted in the work before their eyes.
Portraits by Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov are not just emotionless photographs but lively images of real people with their own inner world that preserved accurate psychological characteristics and individual features. Portraits of women occupy a special place in the artist’s oeuvre. Alexander Gerasimov developed his own method of painting a portrait, as well as his own techniques and what he described as an “approach to the life model.” In each portrait, the artist strove to find the most characteristic posture for his model and notice that special something in the sitter’s disposition, facial features and figure.
Portraits by Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov are not just emotionless photographs but lively images of real people with their own inner world that preserved accurate psychological characteristics and individual features. Portraits of women occupy a special place in the artist’s oeuvre. Alexander Gerasimov developed his own method of painting a portrait, as well as his own techniques and what he described as an “approach to the life model.” In each portrait, the artist strove to find the most characteristic posture for his model and notice that special something in the sitter’s disposition, facial features and figure.