Cyclism and culturological regulations of art history

The article suggests a way to solve the issues of art studies related to the development of a methodology for the study of the processes of artistic culture based on the identification of the inner deep traditions of Russian art. The expediency of using the cyclic methodology of cultural studies, which examines the object in the process of its formation on the basis of the system of procedures for collecting and generalizing experimental material, is substantiated. The analysis of the author's concepts of cyclism in related fields of knowledge of philosophy, psychology, design studies is carried out. From the standpoint of artistic practice, the disparate methods of the artist's visual activity are systematized into cycles and a cultural and historical typology of the self-movement of three branches of Russian art of the XX century is constructed: academic, integral and formalistic.