2450-2561 Spiritual Art in the Context of Transdisciplinarity and Transculturalism Elezović Nadežda author University of Rijeka Correspondence to: Nadežda Elezović 31 05 2023 17 (1/2023) 2023 101 115 Copyright © 2023 2023 <p>This paper deals with the emergence and meaning of the term spiritual in modern, postmodern, and contemporary art with a particular focus on its transdisciplinary and transcultural aspects. The problem develops because of the hitherto neglected involvement of the spiritual in the development and expansion of the modernity program in recent European art history, with a particular focus on recent research redirected from traditional positions of national context to the transformation of visual language and transcultural character of some movements in modern art. 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