Cross-cultural compositions for landscape contact zones of civilization connections

The article examines the crossborder dynamics of the intellectual traditions of European civilizational structures using the example of crosscultural compositions in the space of Belarus. The novelty of the research lies in the description of the tendency for the transformation of crosscultural compositions under the influence of historical eras. The phenomena of the Renaissance, the second scholasticism, the Baroque era, Romanticism and Postmodernism are considered. Crosscultural compositions had a constructive beginning that dominated the technologies of the clash of civilizations. This can be seen in the cultural landscape of Belarus. In it, the strategy of the second scholasticism was realized to oust competitors from the cultural space of Belarus with the arguments concerning education and art. The crosscultural composition of Romanticism strengthened the common European tendency in Belarus to integrate elite culture with elements of folk tradition. This contributed to the formation of Orientalism and the active participation of the natives of Belarus in the study of the East. Modernism put an emphasis on the adaptation of visual arts to technogenic reality and on the development of a methodology for dialogue. Vitebsk became a key locus of the crosscultural composition of Modernism.