The antinomicity of the creative method of the expressionists

The article considers the problem of the characterizing antinomies of expressionism semiosis and reveals the significance of this phenomenon as the essential foundations of the expressionists' worldview. The author analyzes the development of the expressionism traditions in the uniqueness of semiosphere. The aim of the paper is the study of the expressionism base. It has allowed to isolate a number of antinomies, revealing the inconsistency of semiosphere of this art. Following antinomies were identified: rationalism and irrationalism associated with the First world war and the influence of the conception of the famous German scientists; light and darkness, opposed to universal categories of being; black and white, like ancient antinomy; the disintegration and the triumph; catastrophism and the prophecy - concept of prophecy was related to the theme of death as an attempt to find a way out, a search of “new humanism”.