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I think because of our shared genetic makeup and common experience being human creatures on this planet many of us agree certain of the same things are beautiful. Colorful sunsets, green landscapes, blue sky and water, and human faces being a few.
I'm not sure about the landscapes etc.. but I read somewhere that they did some studies on why we perceive certain faces beautiful. It seems that the more common (normal) the face is the more attractive we perceive it to be. They took thousands of faces and measured the feature sizes and distance between them. The faces that came closest to the normal dimensions were considered by most to be the most attractive. They morphed thousands of faces to come up with the norms. They found this to be true even in babies perceptions.
They theorized that we were genetically wired that way in order to pick a mate that was most likely to be healthy for reproduction. Don't know about the babies, LOL.
When it comes to visual art I think it gets more personal. Some people like Norman Rockwell realistic quaintness, some like the little kids with big eyes, some like the dogs playing cards, and some like Jackson Pollack type abstracts, etc..
I think it has more to do with developed taste like wine or music appreciation. I think there are certain sounds that most of us would find pleasing as well, but I don't think my parents would have agreed, LOL.
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