WHAT IS AN ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE?

The article defines the concept of the artistic experience as a totality of states of the emotional sensitivity lived through directly in the process of the artistic act (reception, performance, creation, reflection), which promote the formation of beliefs or value orientations in the pupil’s personality through the refl ection. The artistic experience forms and develops the traits of the pupil’s personality and at the same time, the results of the accumulated experience bear the personality’s mark. Recognition of this interrelation has an overwhelming importance in forming the pupil’s artistic culture in the context of the general education. Based on the analysis of researches conducted in this field we have determined the following: elements of the process of accumulation/formation of the artistic experience; the nature of the man-arts interrelation; essence, characteristics and the criteria of existence of the artistic experience; content of the experience