Aesthetic vs Art

Aesthetic and art are different. The distinction between the two is perhaps made most perspicuous by showing the difference between aesthetic and artistic properties.

• Roughly, aesthetic properties are those that are the properties of sensory taste that we perceive in the things we experience: properties like ‘beautiful,’ ‘dynamic,’ ‘graceful.’
• Artistic properties are those that are relevant to artworks: facts about the context of creation, who the artist was, when they made the work, what their intentions for the work were, etc.