Semantics of a "Living Plant" in the Art Installations

The task of the study is to try to identify the meanings and intentions of using "living plants" in an installation art using the example of four works. This task will answer the two questions posed by the author of the study. Firstly, it is a question of meanings, which is generated by the "living plant" used by artists in the installation. Values, from the position of the artist, when directly the author of the work is first an interpreter of a certain value from the general semantic field inherited in decorative plants, and then the translator of this meaning through the plants used in the installation. Secondly, to answer the question that swings the "living plant" directly in the chosen art format. To solve the task in the first chapter of the work a small historical review of the emergence and development of the phenomenon of ornamental crop production in the culture of everyday life will be undertaken. The selected form of plants and the format of their exposure takes their origins in the history of landscape art and greenhouse history. Also in the first part of the work we will give a brief overview of the semantics of greenhouse and domestic plant growing, which will allow us to form a common semantic field characteristic of ornamental tropical plants. For the second part of the work, the material relating to the installation art will be analyzed, in particular, the allocation of this format and the rules for its exposure. The third part of the study is devoted directly to the analysis of selected works. As sources, articles and interviews of artists are used, as well as some critical notes, in which the question of "living plant" is raised in the work of the selected author.