The article analyzes the creative achievements of Professor Oksana Rudnytska in terms of the nature and content of art education. Particular attention is paid to the methodological principles of the outlined problems, specifics of art education in the dimensions of personality-oriented approach, the ideological function of art, dialog nature of art. The attention to the dialectic of artistic perception and personal understanding of the artwork by the recipient has been paid. Content characteristics of the concept «cultural identity» are given. Reasons for the existence of such phenomena as anticulture are shown and the need for its counteraction is proved. The importance of changing priorities of modern art education and the need to develop new approaches to value criterion of identity formation have been emphasized. Cultural identity is characterized by criteria features: cognitive; value and regulatory. Accordingly, cognitive cultural identity is understood a variety of knowledge as an element of culture; value one reveals awareness of the importance of values and cultural goods, the ability to assess its position on certain ideals; regulatory one describes those requirements and rules under which a person builds their behavior, activity, following the rules Consistently the view that art education is an important factor and a source of humanization learning and education is held. Humanization of training is considered as creation of favorable conditions for the development of spiritual qualities of all subjects of the educational process, the formation of a cooperative relationship between them.
VITAL AND CULTUROLOGICAL MEANINGS IN PROFESSOR OKSANA RUDNITSKA’S WORK
