Academic Artistic Education Methods as a Wave Process (the Normative and Authorial Systems)

The article is devoted to the study of a number of dynamic processes in the field of artistic education. More specifically, there is an analogy drawn between the artistic and pedagogical quest in the academic education of the second half of the 19th century and the “thaw” period of the 20th century. The author treats the topical issue of the inevitable alternation of artists and teachers generations according to the tendencies of time. In personal workshops of the Russian Academy of Arts, the study of teaching methods is made as an analysis of historical and cultural characteristics of art development, viewed from the perspective of stylistic tendencies in teaching. Some clearly localized phenomena in art and pedagogy are of particular interest, such as the “Itinerants” and “Sixtiers” Academies, examined in comparison. The novelty of the article is in that the figurative and stylistic features of the artistic pedagogical practices of the 1960s have been compared with the similar processes in the late 19th century. The article accentuates the influence of artists’ creative system on formation of their students’ artistic style. There are defined the concepts of normative and authorial approaches to teaching.

artistic pedagogy, academic education, methodological principles, educational experience, the Itinerants, the Sixtiers, authorial approach, artistic tendencies

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