Vienovės principas dailės kompozicijoje: meninio ir dvasinio ugdymo pagrindas
The Influence of Kitsch Education Future Teachers of the Fine Arts

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses kitsch as a cultural phenomenon. This insufficiently investigated problem of contemporary culture is especially topical in the democratic society, in which the possibilities of personal choice and tolerance to it prevail. The problem arises because kitsch, occupying the place of a more meaningful art, distorts the scale of spiritual values, thus hindering the spiritual development of a human being. In this respect kitsch also becomes a pedagogical problem. The author maintains that the elimination of the results of kitsch, the establishment of intolerable attitudes towards kitsch should become the main objectives of artistic education. Pedagogical tactics concerning kitsch should become especially significant educating future teachers of the fine arts. However, due to the lack of substantial attention to it in practice, the understanding and evaluation of kitsch remain just a formal declaration. The article presents a research, whose purpose is to disclose the relationship between the future teachers of fine arts and the phenomenon of kitsch. The assignments for individual work, sketches, revealed just elementary aesthetic tastes of the students of the speciality of the fine arts. The carried out research disclosed the effectiveness of the applied pedagogical methods in teaching to evaluate specific objects. However, evaluating different objects in a new situation the results have been similar to the primary results, obtained before the mentioned effect. Having carried out the research it has been ascertained that the problem of the kitsch influence on the process of artistic education of the fine arts students is much more serious than traditionally argued. Therefore, there arises a need for a versatile system of artistic education, long-lasting experience of development of artistic expression, which would consolidate immunity against the phenomenon of kitsch.

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