HARMONY AS A CONCEPT OF DESIGN, AESTHETICS, DESIGN EDUCATION AND ART EDUCATION : THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS

Abstract

The aim of the study is to analyze the range of interpretations of the concept of harmony in different fields of modern science and scientific developments, in particular philosophy and aesthetics, to clarify its form-creating meaning and heuristic potential in the theory and practice of design, art education and design education. Methodology: the methods of comparative analysis, semantic analysis, synthesis, extrapolation have used to identify the range of ideas about the content of the concept of harmony and the features of its denotate, as well as its significance for assessing the products of modern artistic practice.
Results: the relationship of harmony with aesthetic experience and the role in the emergence of a humane, human-dimensional
subject environment, as a factor in the sustainable development of society, as well as the significance of this concept in assessing the principles and results of form-building in design, artistic activity were analyzed; the range of opinions of scientists, domestic and foreign specialists in the field of design on the interpretation of the main components of harmony was clarified. Scientific novelty: the popularity of the idea of the specificity of harmony developed by classical aesthetics has been established; the identification of the concept of harmony and composition in modern design theory has been revealed, the importance of its further development for the development of the theoretical and methodological basis of research in design and art education has been indicated. The practical significance of this study is that it draws attention to the need for a clear explication of the components of the phenomenon of harmony to improve the aesthetic competence of designers and other specialists involved in form-building, creative projects in artistic practices of the 21 st century.