«Thingness of the artistic work» of Martin Heidegger as an equivalent to a systematic evaluation of a fine art object

The concept of "the thingness of a work of art" by Martin Heidegger is presented in the study as an equivalent criterion for evaluating an object of fine art in accordance with the principle of being made. "Thingness", first declared in the essay "The Source of Artistic Work", frees art historical analysis from identifying the artist's work in accordance with ideological prescriptions. Heidegger considers the artistic process, firstly, as a creative substance of the relationship between reality and the phenomenon of perception of reality, and secondly, as a problem of relationship with the truth in the coordinate system: time — man — source — object — symbol. The analysis of the article includes three of Heidegger's approaches to understanding a thing as a bearer of properties, unity of sensations and unity of form and substance, forming the universe of "the thingness of a work of art", which simultaneously includes: 1) aspects of the source (origin of essence); 2) aspects of being made (quality); 3) aspects of the symbol. The results of the study made it possible to identify the main identifications of the quality of an object of art: 1) the degree of professional craftsmanship of the work; 2) an index of the author's aesthetic or deliberately declared anti-aesthetic views as the basis of the idea/concept; 3) a measure of the emotional impact of an art object on the viewer. "Thingness" as a systemic, key approach with universal applicability in the methodology of analyzing fine art objects is becoming particularly relevant in the era of globalization.