The possibility and practice of a new art education

Abstract

Throughout the years, Russian art education has been a kind of concentration of mental, material, technological and technical problems that have not been solved at the national level. The reason for this was the critical socio-cultural turmoil and challenges that our state is constantly forced to solve. To the existing problems, new ones have also been added, created by the global pandemic, which, on the one hand, only strengthens existing and opens up new educational problems, however, on the other hand, and encourages a rethinking of values, both terminal and instrumental, to a deep reflection on the meanings of personal and professional existence. The forced conditions of distance learning only deepened the sense of the urgent need and irreversibility of changes in all levels of art education. Realizing the multidimensional nature of the problem, we will focus on the level of professional art education, which undoubtedly requires, if not a radical reorganization, then at least a significant modification. The author of the article aims to identify the key challenges of professional art education in Russia and to identify ways to answer them, emphasizing the subjectivity of his own vision of the vector of further development of national education in the field of art. The publication of personal views, according to the author, is not only the initiation of discussion, but also a necessary condition for finding effective ways to develop art education in new socio-cultural conditions. It should be noted that we must respond to the challenges of modernity with extreme promptness, because already today the labor market is oversaturated with specialists with diplomas of artistic specialties and, in order not to be completely unclaimed, urgent measures must be taken.