Dmitrieva E.N. 1
Levit E.I. 2
1 Nizhniy Novgorod State Linguistic University n.a. N.A. Dobrolubov
2 Establishment of optional education «Children humanitarian centre»
One of the tasks of the educational process of the higher educational establishment is to provide the students aesthetic culture formation. The personality aesthetic culture characterizes the ability of the person to be the subject of their own development in the process of the individual acquisition of the social historical experience. The mechanism of the individual acquisition of the social historical experience of the mankind is formed with the help of art. Art is the identification environment of the personality in the process of its social and individual formation. Art in its images embodies the ideal of beauty, teaches to feel and understand beauty, create according to its laws, forms value orientations of the person in the world. Due to art which reproduces life in its integrity, the real life experience of the person expands and deepens. Art represents the ideal of harmony of the person and the world, the inner harmony of the personality which contributes to the conservation and restoration of the psychic balance. It forms the human sensitivity and the ability to comprehend the surrounding world in its manifold representations. That is why art is the multifunctional means of enlightenment and education. The system of the students aesthetic culture formation in the higher educational establishment includes the organization of various artistic aesthetic activity – performing, creative, the activity of the artistic perception. The main principles of creating the given system in the educational process of the higher educational establishment are as follows: culture integration of the art types, activization of the cultural attitude to the reality, the integrity of realization of different types of artistic aesthetic activity, the variety of the organizational forms of artistic aesthetic activity, creating the artistic aesthetic environment of the higher educational establishment.