. It seems to us that although each of the concrete historical forms of culture functions within "its" civilization, genetically, structurally and functionally, art always retains its spiritual and creative "redundancy" in relation to its civilization, and its signs precisely characterize culture in relation to civilization from the side of its relative autonomy and creativity freedom. The orientation of civilization towards the means of life, the immediate practical interests and values due to its focus on the development, use of natural conditions of life, external life are complemented in any particular society, "enlightened" by the appeal of culture, and especially art to internal life, expressing the boundlessness of the "claims of the human spirit". Layers of psychic reality are available for artistic reflection. And it is no coincidence, apparently, that in scientific research on this issue we sometimes see more references to the works of artists than to the actual scientific works. The same thing happens with objective reality, and on the borders of the unknown, the infinite. The requirement of reliability, verifiability, and the necessary axiomatization of knowledge complicates the formation and institutionalization of a hypothetical idea in science, requires overcoming the existing paradigm and corresponding empirical confirmations. Otherwise, the unknown is explicated in art. It enters into it in the full scope of uncertainty and improbability. If technical civilization builds its relations with the natural universe, realizing the principles of consumption and subjugation of nature, subordination to man, as if for the benefit of man, then culture, and above all art, cultivate our attitude to nature, which is based on disinterested contemplation, reverence, reverent admiration as the highest and most perfect form of creation, which is for a person, an eternal source of creative inspiration. Unlike the anthropocentrism of civilization, art is characterized by environmentalism and the desire for universal unity with nature, its pantheistic perception.