The Main Features of the Expressiveness of the Arts in the Modern Era

In the present article, the author raises the question of social incentives of the Modern Era that encouraged artists to search for new ways of expression and initiated transformations of artistic methods. The subject of research is the artistic expressiveness of the visual arts and philosophical concepts of the Modern Era. In the culture of the Modern Era, the medieval sacred predetermination that regulated human existence is replaced by anew self-consciousness of a person as a subject of history. Being susceptible to changes in consciousness, art reflects this process, which is emphasized in this study. The relevance of this research is due to the possibility of considering the correlation between the changes in art and a person’s view of life. The author formulates representation and illusory criteria for the expressive methods of the visual arts of the Modern Era and investigates the search for new expressive means by painters, sculptors, and architects. The driving force behind the search for new means of displaying both conscious and unconscious changes in mentality is identified through the analysis of the major changes in the European socio-cultural consciousness in the Modern Era. The question of dialectics of the visual and the expressive is studied in order to consider their impact on the self-movement of art. The author focuses on classical and Baroque trends in art. In studying the expressive techniques of art and the philosophical trends of the Modern Era, the application of the interdisciplinary approach is advisable.