@chanaseiser
Beauty is just one possible goal—not a requirement.
Many great works pursue truth, ugliness, chaos, violence, absurdity, conceptual shock, political rage, or pure formal experiment instead.If "beauty" is defined narrowly as pleasing, harmonious, decorative aesthetics, then a large part of modern and contemporary art deliberately rejects it.
What matters more is whether the painting has intensity, honesty, necessity, or a new way of seeing.Beauty can be present, but it can also be refused, subverted, or simply irrelevant.Related links:
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/aesthetics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anti-art
https://www.moma.org/collection/terms/conceptual-art
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