CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR TEACHING HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS TO WORK ON STILL LIFE COMPOSITION

Abstract

This scholarly article evaluates the process of teaching higher education students majoring in fine arts to execute still life compositions on the basis of innovative, creative pedagogical approaches. Still life is approached not merely as a technical exercise, but as a multi-layered creative process that shapes students’ visual thinking, spatial perception, powers of observation, culture of working with colour, and ability to make artistic decisions. The article highlights the theoretical and practical foundations of modern creative technologies such as constructive visual analysis, multisensory learning, experimental composition, graphic thinking maps, digital simulation, artistic laboratories, multi-stage reflection, and compositional energy analysis. The study shows that still life classes conducted on the basis of creative technologies significantly develop students’ essential competences such as independent thinking, understanding of the relationships between form and space, the ability to find complex compositional solutions, and a conscious grasp of the artistic functions of colour and light.