Directions and features of the development of artistic communication between China and Soviet Russia in the 1950s and 1960s.

The object of the study is the exchanges and cooperation between China and the Soviet Union in the field of creative activity, art pedagogy in the 1950s and 1960s. The subject of the study is the forms of interaction between the artistic worlds of the two countries during the period of the most productive interaction in the field of fine arts and art education. The purpose of the study is to systematize and summarize the accumulated material regarding the study of the ways of influence of the Russian–Soviet art school on Chinese art during the period of active cooperation between the two countries. As the analysis of scientific and specialized literature related to the topic of the dissertation showed, this work is the first serious scientific study devoted to the problem of studying the unique phenomenon of the representation of Russian art abroad and its influence on Chinese art. The methodology is based on techniques aimed at studying various aspects of the phenomenon of the influence of the Russian-Soviet art school on the art of China in the middle of the twentieth century. The analysis of various scientific and documentary sources is used, as well as a comparative study of the artistic material of exhibitions and the work of individual authors, especially art criticism and historical and cultural analysis of forms of interaction. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that it summarizes and systematizes the existing scientific literature, including Russian-language, material related to the study of cultural exchanges between Russia and China in the middle of the last century. The article discusses in detail several areas of development of such contacts, in particular exhibition projects. Special attention is paid to exhibitions of oil paintings and their reception by art circles in Soviet Russia and China. On the other side of the phenomenon, China sees the sending of art students to study fine arts, especially oil painting, to the Soviet Union, as well as the influence of invited specialists on teaching methods in China. Special attention is paid to the introduction of a system of teaching drawing and oil painting courses.