Cherepovska N. Peculiarities of symbolic image formation in arts graphic activity of adolescents

In the thesis, some conceptual approaches to the problem of image in psychology were analyzed. For the first time, the formation of a symbolic image in arts graphic activity of adolescents was investigated and presented as a creative process of symbolization. Symbolization, being a way of abstract concepts and ideas transformation into images, can be considered as double coding, which covers both the search for image representing analog and elaboration of its graphic form. General regularities in the process of symbolization in arts graphic activity of adolescents were elicited, and classification of symbolic images produced. Elucidated was the multifunctional role of imagination in the process of symbolization. The mechanism of symbolic image formation was explored, which involves intellectual actions of analogy permeating the whole process of symbolization. The capability to seek analogs can be successfully developed in adolescents using the adapted KARUS technique at school lessons of fine arts andduring out of school activities. Such development is the prerequisite for increase of their creative potential in general.