I would say that some boxers have an art aspect to their boxing style. They are so good they are fun to watch. Not all people who take martial arts have an arts aspect to their style either and are just talentless hacks swinging hoping something will land.
The name of what you train does not make it an art and when you start out in any martial art you certainly are lacking the art part. The art part only comes after many years of training and not many people stick it out to that level. They are contend with the swing and hit or miss thing which is not a martial art.
It is the practitioner who makes his fighting style an art (or not) through his creativity of using the tools his martial arts teacher has taught him. Think of it this way, you can take painting classes and lots of people can paint and never are an artist. It's never the same looking at a mass produced starving artist painting and looking at a Van Gogh.
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