Cardiff School of Art & Design

I was thinking today if aesthetics or linguistics have a bigger drive in artists’ practice. Meaning that aesthetics in terms of being able to understand and accept the work as a object that sets out to convey an idea or concept, or in the case of linguistics; is what the artwork says, and the manner in which is says it more important. Also how relevent is what art actually looks like nowadays, apart from the phenomenological point of view???