The purpose of this paper is to give the analysis of art as a factor of person of culture image formation. The research discovers art resource potential as means of personality creative capabilities realization in the process of person of culture image formation. Research methodology. The author used interdisciplinary approach to distinguish the role of art in the aspect of person of culture image formation, combining pedagogics and culture studies, aesthetics and psychology, ethics and art study, philosophical anthropology and hermeneutics to cover the process of person of culture image formation by means of arts. The results. The analysis shows the peculiarities of art and aesthetic needs functioning on different stages of person of culture image formation. The study outlines the sequence of developing person of culture spiritualized image and considers the influence of art on it. This describes the way art enables modern youth comprehend classical ideal of сalocogatia as triad truth, goodness, beauty. Each history epoch features the dominant culture, art, ideals built its own person of culture image models. The scientific novelty. The process of person of culture formation implies personality creative dialogue with art, which is proved to be the form of cultural code deciphering through revealing the sense of symbolic worlds of different types of cultures. The practical significance. It is concluded the expedience of pointing out Gothic, Boroko, modern etc. person of culture image with its spiritual and cultural microcosm. The author emphasizes upbringing potential of art catharsis function in the context of person of culture image formation.