Must Art Be Beautiful?

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What is ?beauty?? What makes something inherently ?beautiful? and other things less so? What makes us delight in the appearance of a freshly bloomed rose, and quickly turn away at the sight of a garden grub? The the slippery nature of beauty fascinated Classical philosophers, and has continued to stir debate for centuries: is beauty a subjective thing (that beauty is in "the eye of the beholder") or objective (that beauty is an essential "truth" inherent and innate within a thing)?