June 3, 2013. An art exhibition called ‘With Chisel and Brush’ was launched at Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s exhibition center.

The company’s press service says that the exhibition is dedicated to the works of two members of Russia’s Union of Artists: a monumental sculptor Vitaly Stekanov and a painter and Russia’s Renowned Artist Petr Bortnov.

Both of them graduated from Ural Applied Arts College and went to the front during the war; they were the founding fathers of Nizhniy Tagil school of artists.

Petr Bortnov passed away on May 24, just a few days before his 95th birthday. He was a representative of the social realism school and created over 1,000 canvasses. His works are exhibited at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow; he was also one of the artists who worked on the paintings for VDNKh, the All-Union Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy.

The Nizhniy Tagil exhibition features one of Bortnov’s best paintings, Mother, a grisaille study completed in pencil and coal, as well as some picturesque landscapes such as Visim Expanses, Still-life with pine cones in Hosta, Monastery in Pereslavl-Zalessky, Kynovskiye Ridges, and the paintings reminiscent of his war memories such as the Tank Fight, and a gallery of industrial workers and the painter’s friends and relatives.

Vitaly Stekanov worked on small, machine-worked, and monumental sculptures and was engaged in stone sculpture production as well. The exhibition features the pieces he made from clay (his favorite material), wood, and stone.

There are 40 sculptures and 15 canvasses on display altogether, alongside with the tools that were used for the work.