The transformation of ideas about the creative personality in domestic aesthetics

The article is devoted to the specifics of the approaches of the brightest representatives of domestic aesthetics to the complex questions about the creative person. Meaningful the core of this text are the views of Russian thinkers to the phenomenon of creative individual in General and of this type, as the author of an artistic work in particular. Special emphasis is placed on the fact of the influence of public attitudes and the specific type of aesthetic ideal for the transformation of ideas about the nature of the creative personality and the sense of its activities. The article reveals the relationship of the artist with the cultural context of the eras. Reproduction and interpretation of various approaches to the problems of actualization of the creative personality and its cultural mission reflect the author’s quest to uncover the identity of the domestic aesthetic thought and its achievements.