Art in the age of the pandemic: creative search in the context of the intersection of Russian painting and Chinese culture

The article discusses the experience of creating oil paintings in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. The material for the analysis was the results of the author's plein air practice, presented in the album "Oil Painting by Liao Zhengding `Fields and haystacks in the surroundings of Pushkin'". Based on the current research literature regarding the COVID-19-pandemic impact on the arts, the article provides systematization and analysis of landscape works created by the author during self-isolation;a number of problematic issues of the "pandemic art" theory are brought into sharp focus.