He presents statistics showing that trained experts in aesthetics tend, significantly, to agree on judgments of art from cultures not their own and in styles they never saw before. The agreement is independent of time, culture, and observer, says Child. The experts consulted were Japanese potters of long experience, Fiji Island artisans, Bantu wood carvers, and New Haven students of art and art history. Although Child did not say what the cross culturally valid standards might be, he showed that some exist. All these examples suggest that Oksapmin art, in making one of opposites in its own particular way, is doing what the art of all cultures does.
Art presents a certain relation of things which are separate or opposed, and also united.
It presents opposed tendencies of mind, such as anxiety and hope, and shows that while they are distinct they are still united. It is this that makes it beautiful.