Clive Bell and Roger Fry argued that 'significant form' — an irreducibly aesthetic property — is the only property shared across all genuine works of art across cultures and history.

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Aesthetic: # Aesthetic An aesthetic is a set of principles about what makes something beautiful, appealing, or artistically pleasing. It's basically your personal taste or style—the qualities you find attractive in art, design, fashion, or anything else. For example, someone might have a "minimalist aesthetic" (loving simple, clean designs) or a "vintage aesthetic" (preferring old-fashioned styles).
Clive Bell(as an example of a formalist aesthetician): An early 20th-century British art critic and philosopher who developed the theory that 'significant form' is the most important thing in art.
Genuine works of art(as referring to the category of objects this theory tries to explain): Things that truly count as 'art' rather than just objects that happen to look nice; what makes something legitimately artistic.
Irreducibly aesthetic property(as a descriptor of 'significant form'): A quality that belongs purely to how something looks or feels to our senses and can't be broken down into simpler non-artistic explanations; it's about beauty and artistic experience specifically.

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