Conceptual Art As A Way Of Philosophizing: Painting Instead Of Philosophy[Концептуальное Искусство Как Способ Философствования: Живопись Вместо Философии]

Introduction. The article is focused on studying the intersection of contemporary art and philosophy. Contemporary art is a polymorphic formation, within which there are many individual styles and directions, however, this diversity always has a certain philosophy of art. The philosophy of modern art consists in rejecting the development of traditional artistic methods and techniques. The work of art becomes an object of intellectual knowledge, and not aesthetic perception. The cognitive function of art becomes a priority, and art in general and conceptual art in particular, become ways of knowing the world, which is of interest for philosophical reflection. The aim of the study is to make a philosophical analysis of conceptual art in order to identify its philosophical sources and content. Methods. General scientific methods: analysis and synthesis, induction, deduction, abstraction. When analyzing the works of conceptual art, we used hermeneutic and phenomenological methods, a semiotic approach. Scientific novelty of the study. Conceptual art is seen as a form of philosophizing. It was revealed that in the works of conceptual artists, an idea is more important than its artistic embodiment, an idea, that is, a concept, in itself can be a work of art. Moreover, the concepts of artists are similar to the concepts of philosophers, since the goal of both is to know the world and grasp life. We understand conceptualism in art not only as a direction of avant-garde art of the 1960-1970s, with the goal of intellectual understanding of the art object, but also the main directions of avant-garde art of the 20th and 21st centuries from abstract art to pop art, we understand as conceptual, because their basis is the idea of the artist, immersing the recipient in a state of philosophical reflection. Results. In the course of the study, conceptualism was considered as a philosophy of modern art; on the other hand, the philosophical sources of conceptualism itself were identified: postmodern philosophical consciousness, existentialism, psychoanalysis and the philosophy of language. Conclusions. Conceptual art is a visual form of philosophical questioning about the essence of art itself, existence, about the world as a whole. Ontological uncertainty, actualizing the personal existential and cultural experience of the recipient, is one of the main conditions for philosophizing in the perception of conceptual art. The works of conceptual artists are based on philosophical problems: meaning, correlation of conscious and unconscious, rational and irrational, problems of a person’s abandonment and loneliness, the problem of “the author’s death” and alienation of the creator from his work, the idea of the impossibility of objective knowledge of reality.