Is art subjective?

[bennyboy]

Yes, you could become a model with those traits, if you were in a culture where those traits were considered beautiful.

The fact beauty varies within culture does not make it subjective, it's still objective to a certain culture. You're confusing absolute beauty with objective beauty. If 99% of people in society A consider beauty B to be beautiful, then it's an objective beauty standard for society A, and 1% of disagreement won't erase the general rule

You are defining beauty as "That which is called 'beautiful' by the majority of a given population." And USING THAT DEFINITION, you may be said to be right that some views of beauty are objective. As I said earlier, there can be objective measures of beauty-- but the choice of an objective system is still arbitrary. In this thread, I've used a different definition: "That which elicits emotions for which no combination of words is a sufficient description." I think this definition more accurately represents the subjective and artistic essence of the word.

Now, show me any non-subjective beauty using this definition, or explain why the definition you implied is more valid.