The problem of specificity of training students in high school artists. Defines the principles and features of training on the theoretical and practical sessions. Identifies the purposes of higher education.

Keywords: art education, teaching, vocational training, self-development

In this paper the method works by Chinese artists - Taoists. Identifies the main principles of the above product: contemplation, insight into the phenomenon of identification with the object, inspiration, spontaneity, etc. Represented criteria for evaluating works of art and decryption are the leading graphic symbols.

Keywords: art education, didactics, Taoism, creative method, Taoist beliefs art, theory of art, painting, art

The article deals with the preparation of the leading schools of art of the early twentieth century in Germany and Russia. Determined the reasons for leaving between classical training and subsequent return to the system of art education to the academicism.

Keywords: coloristics, art education, color, professional education

The article covers the period from XVII to XIX century in the development of art education, when it loses its elitism and becomes massive. Identifies three major trends that have influenced the formation of pedagogical training bases of graphic activity and color in professional artistic training: academic training system, physics color and secondary school. The period and the basic principles of the formation of European and Russian art training. Determined by the stage of the formation of the world system of artistic training.

Keywords: academic, arts education, training, mass education