Is music the most subjective art form there is and if yes, why do you think that is?

I think amongst artistic mediums, we (speaking as someone in the Anglosphere fwiw) tend to share and assume a more cohesive set of expectations and conventions about what a song is, and for whatever reason it doesn’t require much cultivation to appreciate songs generally. In cases where it does, that cultivation usually doesn’t require much besides listening to more i think. And unlike “fine art” we haven’t reached a point where the philosophy of art has outstripped aesthetics and the premise that the point of it should largely be to offer form/style to be enjoyed at face value, whereas in the last 100some years of art history - at least since Dadaism and Duchamp’s readymades, amongst other developments in the avant garde - the predominant thrust has been towards turning art into a cerebral, self-reflexive practice concerned with its own definition (which sorta ultimately seems to collapse into something like Arthur Danto’s institutional theory of art)

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