In periods of social upheaval, historically turning points in the life of society, an appeal to the world of arts, artistic creativity, revealing a different reality to a person, re-created according to aesthetic canons – and is sometimes the world that a person needs, that system of value guidelines, on the basis of which it is spiritually strengthened or revived. That is why we singled out art education as a direction directly related to the spiritual development of a student, capable of expressing the actual ideas of the time through the immanent language of arts (of all types, directions and stylistic searches, genres). At the present stage, art education (as in the first third of the last century, when it received a structural and substantive design) is characterized by exploration and experimentation, therefore, the historical analogy carried out allows us to see the repetition or fundamental novelty of the processes aimed at preparing the student of the art profile.