An Outsider's Idea of Beauty

In an earlier post, I mentioned the concept that many humans agree, in a general sense, on what is beautiful because they all share the important feature of humanity. However, I do not think that this vague, general-approval idea of beauty is superior to other ideas of beauty. Imagine, for example, if a species of extraterrestrial life forms intelligent enough to have a concept of beauty viewed earth and considered what they found beautiful there. Their concepts of what is beautiful would most likely differ dramatically from that common human model, I would think. Perhaps they would think the most aesthetically pleasing object on earth is a dining table missing one leg, and pass over the work of Da Vinci and Michaelangelo as uninteresting and every-day. This idea that the most common human idea of beauty is no more correct than that of a hypothetical extraterrestrial species highlights the possibility (the fact, I think) that people whose ideas of beauty do not, in some respect or another, or most or even all respects, match up with the norm have no less valid of opinions than those who agree with the statistical average one hundred percent. Someone who prefers the work of J. K. Rowling to that of Shakespeare is not wrong or right, they merely belong to a relative minority within the larger context of humanity.