Kodyeva H. Pictorial in conceptual and categorical system of culturology

The thesis is bound up with pictorial problem. The concrete aspect of research is pictorial essence and function in culture creating. A lot of historical and contemporary sources in philosophy, culture, aesthetics, psychology, art criticism and works of artists have been analysed. That gave the author an opportunity to offer her own conception of pictorial. It is based on working out a self-developed theoretical model ‘pictorial and its function expressive’ the main principle of which is artist’s free choice as to moral, artistic value and inner unity of his work of art. The model is universal in culture. This point of view is possible to confirm under the following condition: with application of contemporary scientific methodology – synergetic paradigm, visual paradigm, dialectical analysis of such conceptions as: „space“, „time“, „quality“, „quantity“, „form“, „content“, „wholeness“.