Art in educational process provides children opportunity of personal expresssion that contributes to creativity and development in other subjects, positively influencing on the children's development of thinking, learning and motivation. In this research there were 80 teachers from the county Splitsko – dalmatinska and 80 students of fourth and fifth year of Teacher Study in Split. In the survey, there was used a questionnaire (Prilog 1). The purpose of the research was to determine whether teachers or students are more likely to use artwork in art education, are they explaining art language by artwork, whether they consider artwork as importance of understanding art language, whether they use artwork as illustration for art language, encourage children to notice elements of art language, whether they show figurative and abstract artworks, artworks of domestic and foreign artists, whether they encourage children to express an opinion about the artwork and use of artwork as an incentive for artistic creativity. The research has shown that most of the variables that are mentioned are beneficial to students, except the displaying of figurative artworks and artworks of domestic artists in art education in which there is no statistical significance. Both, teachers and students in the classrom are equally representing figurative artworks and artworks of domestic artists.