Special features of aesthetic attitude to reality

Special features of aesthetic attitude of object reality were experimentall y studied in adults (professional artists and those whose profession is not connected to art) and in children (preschoolers, junior and senior schoolc hildren). The method of object description was used. Professional artists a nd preschoolers were characterized by emotionality, wholeness and finality of description, strategic independence of cognition. There are prerequisite s of artistic development in young children and adolescents partly lose the se prerequisites.