On the chronological coordinates of the world art process

The article examines the general coordinates of the retrospective of world artistic culture and identifies the patterns of its evolution, which make it possible to predict subsequent development. This is due to the fact that until now quite a lot in our vision of the general panorama of the artistic-historical process remains approximate and unclear. The author offers four positions of chronological division: epoch, epoch, period and stage. The article examines a specific period of historical time, within which the phenomena of one or another type of art or even all its types are endowed with a certain commonality, a set of distinctive features, which allows us to talk about the unity of the ethical and aesthetic. views, about the similarity of artistic manners and techniques.