ART AS REGARDS SCIENCE AND RELIGION

Abstract

It is commonly thought that art is an individual creativity producing aesthetic values. But, without knowing what art is, we cannot define aesthetic value
either. John Berger suggests in his Picasso book that art is a way of seeing.
Social scientists suggest that it is a form of learning. However, they do not have
any definition of art. Here I am concerned with the differentiating, distinctive
characteristic of art itself rather than the conceptions of art products. Given
that human beings have many different modes of seeing, understanding,
expression and communication, exact definition of art can be provided only
with direct references to science and religion which are other two dominant
forms of human intellectuality. Art, science and religion are the only systematic learning and seeing systems humans have hitherto produced.