The development of artistic and creative abilities of students on the basis of the academic system of artistic training

In this scientific paper the authors express some critical thoughts about the situation that has developed in recent years in the field of training teachers majoring in art education. The authors raise the question of the need to return to the basics of academic art education of artists and teachers in connection with the problems associated with the adoption of the Bologna education system. Having studied the publications of famous Soviet and Russian artists-teachers and considering personal observations, the authors of the paper substantiate the need to develop artistic and creative abilities of students using the best traditions of Russian academic art education, which is based on the decisive importance of working from nature. The peculiarity of the courses is the unification of educational-cognitive and artistic-creative tasks in the educational process. The concept of artistic and creative abilities as a complex of individual personality traits, the concept of individual manner in artistic creativity is clarified. Special attention in the paper is paid to the pedagogical interaction of the subjects of the educational process, to the disclosure of the individuality of the individual. The development of artistic and creative abilities of students at the lessons of academic art courses must be solved by the purposeful guidance of a teacher-mentor. The authors analyze possible ways to solve the problem of the development of artistic and creative abilities of prospective artists-teachers.