Art remained ambivalent, is often judged on highly subjective views. The fundamental value of art as a tremendously rich cognitive system is not understood. Many today feel that we have come to some limits at the end of this millenium. The human capacities to control the world were overestimated. Some theories might be defective.
Ontology means world view.
In the following we try to build up a world view by focussing on art. We will make a short excursion into the Japanese history of art. Comparing functionally very different forms, we will discover a continuous element, a clear bipartition of form which is not formalistic, on the contrary, we will become more and more aware that this bipartition expresses a whole worldview , which we may call 'coincidence of opposites', 'polarity', 'complementarity', 'harmonious worldview', ' YinYang thought', ' Daoism' and the like. In contrast to our analytical worldview , we will call these cognitive systems relational. They are not focussed on the analytical isolation of objects in order to manipulate them.