Teaching (and the place) of/art in the context of professional education

Historically, the teaching of art was aimed only at the Brazilian elite and later began to be incorporated in the field of professional education in order to provide the less favored classes with skills and skills related to the world of work, especially in the industrial segment. This scientific article seeks to perform a clear and objective analysis of the teaching of art in the context of professional education nowadays from this historical reflection, generating an understanding about the place occupied by the arts in the formation of the individual for life and for the world of work. To this end, a bibliographic research was carried out, which had the contributions of 16 other studies and publications on the subject. The results obtained revealed that nowadays the teaching of art for professional education is not aimed at the "training of artists", but rather to build values and identities and to generate knowledge and skills that will be useful in experience and professional experience. Contextualizing the teaching of art in the scope of the globalized world, it is said that the use of "digital art" techniques also contribute to the mastery of technologies and innovations by the professional in training, something that had gone from being a differential in the curriculum to become a true requirement of the world of work.