Bumping because I think it's an interesting topic

I've found that it is objective, but not in the way people think it is. The vast, vast majority of people will generally perceive art the same way. If a movie is dramatic and does a good job being dramatic than everyone will see it as such.

If we apply this to the theory that art is communicate, than it should follow that good art is art that the public agrees on the artist with.

In other words, the value of a work is subjective, but the clarity of it is objective.

If someone tells a bad joke, the joke isn't bad because it is a joke or even because it was a joke about something you don't like, it's bad because he paced it wrong.