FORMATION OF SCIENCE-ORIENTED ART: CAUSES AND RESULTS

• Main Author: Denis Aleksandrovich Popov
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Science and Innovation Center Publishing House 2016-02-01
• Series: Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem
• Subjects: science; art; research programs; artistic currents of the XIX-XX centuries
• Online Access: http://journal-s.org/index.php/sisp/article/view/8284

<p class="x-----------" xml:lang="en-US"><span class="char-style-override-1">Purpose:</span> identify the causes of the phenomenon of science-oriented art of the 19-20<span class="char-style-override-16">th</span> century.</p><p class="x-----------" xml:lang="en-US"><span class="char-style-override-1">Methodology:</span> theoretical analysis of possibilities and ways of interaction between science and art in the analyzed period.</p><p class="x-----------" xml:lang="en-US"><span class="char-style-override-1">Results</span> The author defines science-oriented art as artistic trends that embodied concepts of a human formed by the humanities. The author identifies the following reasons for its emergence: the high status of science in the 19<span class="char-style-override-16">th</span> century, the ability of art, as a special form of activity, to converge with other types of activity, identification of science and truth, and appropriation of reflective functions towards art by science.</p><p class="x-----------" xml:lang="en-US">Art, which is not a rational activity, had to rely on the findings and conclusions, which science made about it. Even theorizing artists were forced to rely on ideas of scientists that were far from art.</p><p class="x-----------" xml:lang="en-US">In the 19-20<span class="char-style-override-16">th</span> century, socio-biological theories, Marxism, and psychoanalysis claimed the role of fundamental scientific research programmes that reveal the essence of man. Each of them found its artistic embodiment in the form of naturalism, socialist realism, surrealism, and psychological novel. This kind of art was used by scientists to prove the truth of their own concepts.</p><p class="x-----------" xml:lang="en-US">The author comes to the conclusion that the rise or decline of a science-oriented art movement depended on credibility of the scientific research programme that was close to it. Success of a particular scientific movement resulted in the emergence of a corresponding art movement; disappointment in it became the reason behind its fading.</p>