ART IN UKRAINE: QUESTIONS OF MEANINGS, TERMS AND FORMS

The article deals with some issues of development of modern art education and art history in Ukraine, considering the problem of losing the meaning of creative activity and poor development of its own artistic terminology. This is due not only to modern European processes of transformation of values in the view at man, but also the complex historical legacy of education in Soviet Ukraine, where the humanities were subjected to ideological dictate. The service role of the humanities gave it certain state guarantees, because it was here that the justifications of ideological paradigms were forged. It is obvious that such a state could not but affect the processes in the development of humanitarian knowledge of modern Ukraine, in particular, today we see a huge problem in terminology in various fields. Among these we can highlight the issues of terminology in modern Ukrainian art history. In our review of this problem, an attempt is made to analyze the concepts: fine arts, decorative and applied arts and design. Their different nature is substantiated, which allows us to talk about the need to differentiate approaches to teaching these areas in modern art education and creativity.