Art as a part of spiritual culture

In the spiritual culture of society a special, important place is occupied by art - the sphere of people's spiritual and practical activity aimed at the artistic comprehension and assimilation of the world; one of the ways of aesthetic exploration of the world. A remarkable property of art is its ability to unite people, to evoke in them the same feelings and thoughts. This allows him to play a special role in the system of interethnic and interhuman understanding, turning it into a universal language of international communication. It brings peoples together, allows them to get to know each other better.

Art in society performs the function of orienting a person and pulling him to a certain level of culture, the level of thinking, understanding, penetrating thought, creation, feeling into the spiritual life of society and the spiritual world created by society as a special environment for human habitation. If we are really dealing with a genuine, adequately expressing our essence, an art that corresponds to our concept, then it will inevitably and inexorably serve progress, because it is based on the comprehension of man in his uninterrupted ascension through inner spiritual perfection, enrichment, acquisition of new opportunities and forces, new qualitative definitions. Without referring to art, without interaction with it, no civilized society is possible. In relation to the self-organization of the society, art acts as a mechanism that performs the functions of control and self-control over the course of the development of society, as an instrument that tests the measure of the humanity of society and the degree of its humanistic purposefulness. In this case, art acts as a mirror in which society can look in which it can study itself in the human dimensions proper and assess the degree of its conformity to the attitudes and definitions coming from the content and meaning of human life.

Art is one of the forms of knowing life. Particularly great is the role of art in the cognition of man's spiritual world. It penetrates deep processes of personality psychology, reveals the most complex interaction of thoughts, feelings and will. From the very beginning of its existence, art was called upon to ennoble, improve, humanize society, man and nature. In modern society, it is an important sphere of his culture, his specific language, in which she speaks to a person, affirming beauty and good.

Art educates and shapes the personality of a person, his attitude to life, allows him to better understand his place in life, helps to shape a person's behavior in certain life situations, teaches his kindness, courage, justice, honesty, diligence -in a word, everything beautiful that is peculiar to people . Art affects a person, it guides and improves it morally.

Art acquires a relatively independent development in the structure of society, however, preserving as its leading the function of providing a person with the necessary spiritual experience as an internal condition for self-organization and self-movement of society. Art increasingly becomes irreplaceable by any other mechanisms of a means of transferring a person to higher levels of culture, to those levels that provide society with its real progressive development on the basis of competence and understanding the sensitive intelligence of its members. That is why the weakening in the activity of artists, the deformation of the functions of art and the distraction of artistic creativity from its main goals and tasks lead to a significant drop in the culture in the mass of the population. This is not due to the fact that people gradually descend without having as a good guide and an important stimulus for art, but because they stop rising, remain at different levels and layers of culture, do not realize the need and do not feel the need and desire to rise higher . This creates a retarding effect in the processes of self-organization and self-development of the society, due to the lack of receptivity of consciousness, insufficient maneuverability and flexibility of thinking, insufficiency of horizons, spiritual experience for ensuring an effective system of self-organization and its self-development.

Art, being a sufficiently independent and important sphere of society's culture, actively interacts with other forms of spiritual culture - religion, morality, science.

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