The importance of visual culture is emphasized in an emerging post-modernist society; besides, visual characteristics are regarded as an extremely important educational means in achieving various social, cultural, and educational goals. Through visual perception of environment humans experience various aesthetical emotions. The visual quality of environment reflects the spiritual culture of society, shapes aesthetically attractive cultural landscape, and cultivates traditions of environmental adjustment that create unique surroundings of our living place. The visual quality is objective and can be measured; but the aesthetical quality is a product of evaluation determined by cultural background and personal features. In the contemporary context of globalisation and multicultural trends, a rapidly changing environment requires from us not only a simple adaptation, but the maintenance of positive, creative, inseparable from aesthetical, relationship as well. Relationship between personality and the world begins from attitude that is an instrumental way of evaluation of environment and determines individual����s reaction to the environmental changes. Tenaciously cultivated relationships and attitudes towards the environment, the objects of art and the values they represent in due course develop into person’s value-oriented convictions that form the core of personality. The attitudes stabilization begins in adolescence, when their outlines, together with personal... [to full text]

The importance of visual culture is emphasized in an emerging post-modernist society; besides, visual characteristics are regarded as an extremely important educational means in achieving various social, cultural, and educational goals. Through visual perception of environment humans experience various aesthetical emotions. The visual quality of environment reflects the spiritual culture of society, shapes aesthetically attractive cultural landscape, and cultivates traditions of environmental adjustment that create unique surroundings of our living place. The visual quality is objective and can be measured; but the aesthetical quality is a product of evaluation determined by cultural background and personal features. In the contemporary context of globalisation and multicultural trends, a rapidly changing environment requires from us not only a simple adaptation, but the maintenance of positive, creative, inseparable from aesthetical, relationship as well. Relationship between personality and the world begins from attitude that is an instrumental way of evaluation of environment and determines individual’s reaction to the environmental changes. Tenaciously cultivated relationships and attitudes towards the environment, the objects of art and the values they represent in due course develop into person’s value-oriented convictions that form the core of personality. The attitudes stabilization begins in adolescence, when their outlines, together with personal self-actualization... [to full text]