English: The monograph is devoted to the theoretical aspects of the development of the pedagogical system for the modernization of continuous art education, the conditions for its effective implementation, the problems of creative self-actualization of the modern growing man in art classes, the peculiarities of the development of creative imagination based on the ideas of the scientific school B.P. Yusov. The work is intended for specialists in the field of the organization of education, workers in the system of general additional and professional education, students of pedagogical universities, researchers.