The state Museum of the state cultural center of Turkmenistan has opened a thematic exhibition entitled “Shock school-a new page of Turkmen painting” to mark the 100th anniversary of the Shock school of Oriental arts and the 120th anniversary of the birth of Bashim Nurali.

September 16, 1920 under the leadership of talented Russian artists who came to our country Ruvima (Ilya) Moiseyevich Mazel and Alexander Pavlovich Vladychuk opened a Shock school of Oriental arts in Ashgabat.

Students of the Shock school were trained in painting, sculpture, lithography and zincography, studied Turkmen nature, theater, music, dance, and received a General education. The first Turkmen artist Bashim Nurali, S. N. Beglyarov, M. P. Fedura, E. A. Skoblina-Beglyarova, N. I. Kostenko, V. Ya. Demidenko, a well-known scientist of Turkmenistan, candidate of biological Sciences O. F. Mizgireva made their first steps in art here.

The exhibition presents archival photographs, information about the life and work of R. Mazel, A. Vladychuk and B. Nurali. Here are exhibited works of artists-graduates of the Shock school: graphics by M. P. Fedura, for the first time several posters "Morphology of different leaves" by O. F. Mizgireva are shown.

The sketchbook, oil paints, and musical instruments created by the first Turkmen artist Bashim Nurali occupy a special place in the exhibition.

The exhibition also includes works by Russian artists A. M. Zaslavsky and V. S. Pshenichnikov, who came in the early 1920s to study architectural monuments and Turkmen nature, and graphic works by M. S. Tuganov.