Seemingly Joseph has fallen into a common deception in English which is a universal term (let us say shoes) is used to identify a category - in turn everything in that category is thought to be equal (after all they are all shoes) but in actuality the term masks a multitude of differences as such when one talks about art - there is no such singularity but merely a family of things that to a greater or lesser degree have some shared characteristics.
Subsequently, he would need to ask is it possible for something to achieve the status of fine art (or high as opposed to let us say popular art or significant art) without consensus
