The phrase "an explanation of the art" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing or describing a piece of art, its meaning, or its significance in a particular context.
Example: "The curator provided an explanation of the art displayed in the gallery, highlighting the artist's techniques and intentions."
Alternatives: "a description of the artwork" or "an interpretation of the art".
Which seems as good an explanation of the art of storytelling as any I've yet heard.
At a workshop in Terranova, I was captivated by an explanation of the art of making bagpipes, the air bags manufactured by making an incision in the hind leg of a goat's carcass and blowing into it until the skin comes away from the flesh and can be removed in one piece.
4. In the first book, O Emperor, I laid before you an explanation of the art, its requisites, and the learning an architect should possess, and I added the reasons why he should possess them.
It included a briefing on the purpose of the study, the provision of fictitious blood results that would qualify a participant observer to start ART, an explanation of the checklist used to screen adherence to performance standards and an instruction on how to document the findings.
In addition, it requests that IRBs receive an explanation of "the full life cycle" of collected information (art 5.3).
By picking the art, not the artisan, Aristotle is not just trying to provide an explanation of the production of the statue that is not dependent upon the desires, beliefs and intentions of the individual artisan; he is trying to offer an entirely different type of explanation; an explanation that does not make a reference, implicit or explicit, to these desires, beliefs and intentions.
In a fascinating explanation of the art of performance, Branagh, who won two Baftas for his role in Wallander and was knighted in 2012, said he meditated twice a day for half an hour a time "to calm that racing mind" as well as "hear instincts" or "uniformed hunches".
Ask for an explanation of the reason.
Ask for an explanation of the prescription.
The Q+A permitted Sack to expand upon some of the ideas raised in his talk, from explaining how his current pedagogy already incorporates software and data science as art, to a deeper exploration and explanation of the art and science continuum, to the distinctions between craft and art and how Sack envisions software fitting into that spectrum.
The Kuwait Modern Art Museum sadly offers very little explanation of the art on display and no book or audio guide, but it more than makes up for it for those who are willing to visit with an open mind and a little imagination allowing themselves to be enchanted by its unrivalled architectural, historical and artistic treasures.
