Keyword: «history of the cityscape genre»

The author analyzes the phenomenon of a city and its image in culture and art, its role in art education. In the search of functions and purposes of city image depicting by artists for many centuries, the author comes to positive conclusions about the development of creative and cognitive activity as a part of educational and individual artistic processes. Work in the cityscape genre designates professional ideological reference points in the student’s creativity. A special place in the genre of cityscape is given to the studying of architecture history and its styles, represented in modern urban space. The author also identifies artistic practical skills of young artists developed during cityscape drawing.