Artistic university as a way of forming artistic intelligentsia

This article discusses the main approaches to the definition of the intelligentsia. The authors, defining this ambiguous stratum of society, emphasize its various characteristics. The conditions of formation and specific features of the intelligentsia are also given. Its internal structure is considered with an emphasis on the artistic intelligentsia, which plays an important role in the transmission of spiritual and moral values and norms. The features and functions inherent exclusively in the artistic intelligentsia are highlighted. The main agents involved in its formation in modern Russian society are also identified. The main method is the art university and its social environment, which through the socialization of creative youth create new members of the artistic intelligentsia. The influence of the higher education system on the formation of values and norms among students is shown, as well as the impact of modern trends in artistic culture on them is noted. A number of problems of higher art educational institutions related to the commercialization of education, as well as its orientation to mass values, are highlighted. Further, the key ways of the artistic intelligentsia's influence on the public in the era of globalization are considered. The Internet becomes the main platform for broadcasting their works, which also creates a number of problems in the content of works, as well as in their perception by people.