PROBLEMS OF COPYING PAINTINGS IN ARTISTIC AND PEDAGOGICAL EDUCATION

Abstract

In the publication, the authors examine the history and practice of copying paintings as an academic subject since ancient times, as well as in the process of formation and development of European and Russian academic art education. The authors pay special attention to the current state of the educational process at the art departments of pedagogical universities, where copying as a subject is practically absent. At the same time, attention is drawn to the need to include in the educational process an optional course on students’ copying activities, the main problems that students encounter in the process of educational copying of paintings are identified. The authors come to the conclusion that copying easel painting works as an educational process in art departments of pedagogical universities should have scientific and methodological support, where the educational, methodological and technological system of knowledge, as well as practical skills with target validity would be clearly balanced.