Abstract: The article re-examines, following Arthur Danto and Jean-Marie Schaeffer, the “essence” of art, through the phenomenological examination of this commonplace evidence: artistic work is in itself aesthetic. We aim to show that there is an artistic “way” to play with “lived time”. In doing so, we insist on an “essence” of art as a “communion of lives” and propose a possible metaphysical, even theological, re-reading of art.
