Rural revitalization enabled by art is a new idea and an important model under the strategy of rural revitalization. This paper analyzes the current situation, problems and suggestions from three aspects. To empower the countryside by art is to combine the emerging design concept with the rural tourism industry, enhance the tourists' sense of experience, beautify the rural landscape with art empowerment, inherit the rural culture, and spread the rural customs. The art can continue the local and unique beauty of the countryside and promote the employment of rural talents and the development of rural economy. Artistic village construction relies on the expression form of art, explores, and activates the traditional cultural value, gives full play to its value and establishes the connection with the nature of the countryside, presents the rural style with the ability of art subtly, and provides the possibility for the inheritance of rural culture.