Marina Tsvetaeva
Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
The report investigates and analyses the modern culture in the context of basiс principles and ties with former traditions. The author examines theoretical problems of Christian ontology and anthropology. These include soteriological, ontological, symbolic, liturgical, psychological, moral, anagogic directions. The culture should testify to the ideas of absolute truth, beauty and goodness. Contemporary culture knows that at the heart of the artistic image lies the concept of “paradise, icons, logos, logocentrism and sophia”. But now there is a process of inversion, rearrangement of meaning in the basic concepts. We need the analysis of “artistic losses” that occur in connection with the impact on the basic foundation of intelligence. Modern art suffers a loss in such aspects as harmony, beauty and ability of metaphoric associative thinking. A theoretical problem is a profound comprehension of ties between Old Russian art, classical and avant-garde art. Another actual problem is interpretation of art text. It is necessary to discuss such questions as freedom of creation, responsibility of painter, word sense, spiritual and personal philosophy. A significant theme is integrity and holiness in the context of God-seeking and apostasy. In the history of Russian art culture there were such valuable phenomena as confession and prophecy which are important for perceiving modern art development.