Topological characteristics of the category of time in an artwork

The article defines the topological property of artistic time on a scientific and theoretical basis. Topology is the study of the ability of geometric shapes to retain their original shape no matter how much they change. In philosophical literature in the theory of time, the term "metric" is used in the sense of "qualitatively invariant" as an antonym. It is wrong to measure artistic time in the form of a "metric" (size). The temporally visual form, considered as a sign of its expression, is one of the main objects described in the book, which does not prevent us from looking at the temporal duration of the action from a different angle. As established by a number of studies conducted over the past ten years, artistic time is not limited to the calendar measurement of an event, but also determines the number of interrelated events, their associative, causal, psychological relationship with each other, lines up in content, reveals the complexity of the story.