Abstract: The end of art as a theoretical claim has been proposed in the Western aesthetics by Plato, Hegel and Arthur Danto. The reason for the repetitive raising of the claim is, the paper argues, that the Western thought is too rooted in the dualism between perception and reason to reach the truth of art. The paper thus proposes the replacement of the perception-reason dualism with the monism of intuition, on the ground that intuition is the original epistemic capacity and the origin of both perception and reason of human beings. Intuition is the capacity to grasp the essence of things, which will be transformed to concept and system of knowledge by reason, or expressed as image by perception. Therefore, the essential quality of art is intuition, and art provides the basic way to reach truth. Art will continue to exist with human's will to seek truth.

Key words: intuition, perception, reason, concrete art, abstract art