Home – Home – Jornals – "Philosophy of Education" 2016 number 3

The author focuses on the contradictions in the development of fine-arts, which is an integral part of modern culture of the postmodern in Russia and unchanged conservative requirements of academic disciplines. Academic art over the centuries has evolved in the search of perfect forms and proportions. The measure was the desire for beauty and harmony. Antiquity was perfect and ideal. The sublime beauty of the Renaissance was moral - the themes of artistic works were Biblical and Evangelical scenes. The Soviet system of art education, despite the ideological bias, did not contradict the centuries-old tendencies of development of culture and art in Russia. During practical sessions on the disciplines «Academic painting» and «Academic drawing», students learn the basics of realistic depiction of the surrounding world. The tasks of academic art and the requirements for jobs in these disciplines are in a certain contradiction with the trends of modern art. Over the past decades, watching the expositions art exhibitions, one can notice the ever decreasing number of works of art, executed in a realistic and academic manner. The trend of the modern art refusing the creation of an image and creating a new reality contradicts the tradition of the Russian fine arts. Estimating the tendencies of development of the modern fine arts, one cannot but notice the discrepancy in the formation of art preferences of future artists: in the assessment of studies and with the requirement to follow criteria of realistic art, the exhibition committees more and more often award pointless compositions and the criteria are indistinct. Diplomas have begun to be awarded for «works» which often cause only bewilderment and misunderstanding even among professional artists. Creation of a realistic image demands painful creative searches and great professional skills. It is important to encourage the youth to follow the Russian national traditions in the subsequent creative work. They need to understand what is a service to art which demands huge and daily work and what is a personal amateur creativity in which it is possible to be engaged without having art education.