While art often refers to a creative activity resulting in the production of paintings, drawings, or sculpture, works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power, it is much more. As we can see from the etymology of the word, we use our artistic abilities to put back together that which science has been separated through analysis.
It is through art that we bring order and harmony to the world, words that share a common PIE base.
Latin ars ‘skill, way, method’, from art-, from PIE base *ar- to fit together’.