Abstract
This chapter gives an interpretation of Heidegger's famous lecture "The Origin of the artwork", which begins with a question, what is a difference between an art work and other artefacts. Based on this guidance, special ontological status of art is gradually clarified.
Heidegger does not understand art as a type of human interest, but as the original way of opening of the world. The chapter is thus also a contribution to the clarification of Heidegger's concept of truth in the meaning of the Greek Aletheia - i.e. the truth as the openness and obviousness.