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This is one of those cases where I'm not sure exactly what "objective" and "subjective" are supposed to mean. Probably 2-place words, but probably objective ones.
I went with Other because I think aesthetic judgments are mostly the same for humans, but will be whatever evolution spits out for non-humans. There's some objective (aesthetic value is a product of evolution) and some subjective (because it's a product of evolution, it's environment-dependent and subject to variation).
For all I know, though, that position is Accept:subjective, since 2-place words would be a radical new insight to most philosophers who pick Accept:objective.
Of course this question is universally (snerk) misunderstood as "objective" = "universal", which are not actually synonymous.
Other: a complex weighted mixture of both, and varying according to context. Similar to ethical value.
Other: I'm genuinely undecided about this. I don't think I lean substantially in either direction.
I'm not sure how anyone could argue that aesthetic value is objective when humans regularly disagree about the aesthetic value of things. It's a pretty stern counterexample.
Humans regularly disagree about lots of objective things, because they're wrong about them.