ULUSLARARASI SANAT – TASARIM KONFERANSI, PERFORMANS VE SERGİSİ 14 Nisan 2021 INTERNATIONAL ART- DESIGN CONFERENCE, PERFORMANCES & EXHIBITION April 14, 2021 183 Art as Search of a Better World From a Popperian Perspective Ezgi Tokdil Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Faculty of Education, Fine Arts Education Department, etokdil@mehmetakif.edu.tr Abstract In this research, the creation / discovery phases of the scientist and the artist are analyzed mutually tracing the idea that the way to reach information and truth is the search for a better world within the scope of Karl Popper's science philosophy and optimistic view on history. According to Popper, the task of the scientist is to reach objective truth, but objective truths are not always absolute judgments. Likewise, the duty of art and the artist is not, and should not be, to present a valid point of view to objectivity. The reality of art is to create different subjectivities. Science and art differ at this point; when new knowledge emerges in science, it replaces the old information if it has sufficient verification power. However, in the field of art, the diversity of all subjectivities covering a certain period has an ageless value and an unfalsifiable quality. There are only certain historical conditions, cultural values, ideological structures, aesthetic identities, and as the human mind continues to progress, the perceived reality changes, parallel to this, new subjectivities of the object develop. As Popper expresses, the search for a better world lies at the heart of this change, both in science and in the field of art. From the existence of the universe to today's technology societies, humanity is always forward-looking, in motion and in an effort to liberate. While scientific reality, which examines the world of facts, continues its existence as a field of struggle to carry knowledge forward, cultural activity that reflects the world of emotion has shaped it as it wishes to be, not as it is or should be, and when art begins to be spoken, content becomes more important than form. But in the final analysis, it can be said that there is a mutual interaction in both; as science changes the world and it itself continues to change in that world, the artist participates in this movement and the way he (re)creates reality changes as he changes. As Popper put it, "it is the dream of reaching a new freedom" and human beings always continue their orientation as the search for a better world. Keywords: Karl Popper, Philosophy of science, Philosophy of art, Aesthetic perception, Objective sensation, Subjective perception, Factual reality. Introduction Orientation towards the search for a better world emerged from the idea of progressing towards the better. This introduces a prospective point of view in horizontal plane and a primary phase should be mentioned for this - as in the beginning of the universe. Following the detection of a starting point, there has always been a spatio- temporal progress towards the better in cultural, scientific, philosophical terms and historical-social values. At this point, we come across arche concept with the meaning of the origin of the whole life in Ancient Greece. While the idea of progress had a theological dimension - a priori character- in Middle age world, it gained a systematic order within the concept of the philosophy of nature starting from the Renaissance and New Age. While linear time stood out in the 19th century, 20th century emphasized cyclic progress. But the idea of progress defining a common framework as a whole in the beginning validated different dynamics with unique characters in all fields starting from the emergence of modern philosophy. Historical progress (in terms of chronological time) is certainly linear but scientific progress has not always been in the form a straight line - the idea of reaching the better is always valid but the understanding of modern science has also questioned the cyclicality of this progress. Likewise, despite its constantly prospective characteristic, cultural consistency is not always after the objective good but is within the concept of a mental satisfaction and liberalization. We can say that a similar idea of progress is also present in thinking. Thus, the idea of progress has neither a completely constant meaning, nor a common orientation but can be defined in terms of functionality. Analyzing especially the historical conditions of the idea of progress, the accordingly conducted research aims to emphasize that, together with the similar and different aspects of the progress experienced within the concept of historical conditions between different fields - especially scientific progress and artistic creation-, almost all aspects of the change in consistency pursue to reach a better world. Vital mobility has brought along the variation in the ways of thinking parallel to the liberalization