Ключевое слово: «painting»

The study is devoted to the description of one of the universal linguistic and cultural concepts. The concept of «Art» in the English and Russian languages is a significant human activity that involves talent, generally expressive proficiency, beauty, emotional power and conceptual ideas. The study was conducted on the basis of lexicographic material and phraseology. Comparative analysis was used for identifying the main differences in the concept of «Art» and «Iskusstvo». The article represents that with the analysis of the synonyms, definitions, parallelisms, the attitude in English and Russian contrasts according to cultural values.