Background
Valeriy Vasilevich Tarasenko was born on the 20th of November, 1911 in Staraya Toyda, Voronezh oblast, Russian Federation.
Valeriy Vasilevich Tarasenko was born on the 20th of November, 1911 in Staraya Toyda, Voronezh oblast, Russian Federation.
Since 1929, Valeriy Vasilevich studied at the Saratov Art College under the guidance of B.M. Yustitsky, after graduation, continued his studies from 1933 to 1939 at the Moscow Art Institute. His teachers were K.N. Istomin, P.I. Lvov, P.Ya. Pavlinov, and M.S. Rodionov.
ince the beginning of the 1930s, Valeriy Vasilevich participated in the exhibition activities of the Moscow Union organization. He is the author of portraits, landscapes, many one-session studies, circus sketches, and a series of lithographs "Circus". Famous for picturesque landscapes of Tarasenko from the cycle "Crimea" (1936), portraits of the animal artist V.A. Vatagin (1959), circus artists O. Popov (1958, 1961), Y. Nikulin (1969).
Valeriy Vasilevich performed a number of portraits of villagers, rural and urban landscapes: "The village of Toyda" (1966), "Voronezh" (1976).
Valeriy Vasilevich died on the 10th of January, 1979 in Moscow, Russian Federation.