Beauty and brain recognition in fine arts and music

2. So, is it all about recognition?

Can the beauty be recognized and appreciated as a set of familiar patterns? Can it be analyzed?
First, I'd like to bind the discussion to the definition of beauty and beautiful, and derive some conclusions from it.
Let's refer to the dictionary (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/beautiful):
Beautiful: having beauty; having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech. 
    In other words, the definition refers to the feeling or emotion of pleasure someone has when absorbing information from a certain source, and obviously it would be a mistake to explain the feelings only by a mechanism of brain recognition. Feelings and emotions are known to accompany acts of perceiving any information, and have deep influence on our behavior and, ultimately, the very survival of humans, by providing responses from unconscious mind that help us to immediately react to various stimuli.
Unconscious reactions have 2 sources: inborn and conditioned.
Inborn reactions have long history and the very title of Anthony Steven's book The Two Million-Year-Old Self  suggests it. So, your emotions have a lot to do with your inherited self, with a two million-year old history of your Self.
But, is the beauty of music necessarily related only to your unconscious?
Many researches, e.g. described in a comprehensive book The Psychology of Music show that personal preferences and the very ability to perceive music depends on each person's experience and exposure to certain kinds of music. The preferences also change with age, as a person gets more experience listening to and learning various musical styles and/or cultures. For example, 4-graders in US schools show different preferences to musical styles and cultures than 7th-graders. Also, both groups listened longest to what they preferred, which I interpret as a result of their better satisfaction, and that ultimately this fact can influence a person's perception of the beautiful formed during previous experiences in music. 
The Psychology of Music also contains evidence that recognition is important for perceiving sounds as musical or non-musical, and apprehending melody, rhythm, harmony and other components of music, that are necessary for the very creation of musical preferences. And, common sense suggests that in order to have preferences or, ultimately, consider and feel that something is beautiful, one needs to recognize various musical pieces and to be able to identify the differences between them.

What about perception of visual arts? Is it any different or similar to perception of music?
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