Yeah I'd argue that finding something beautiful is fundamentally a function of conciousness - if not, beauty would otherwise just be a set of qualities and quantities you could replicate, and it doesn't really seem to be a certain set of qualities and quantities. Even if we were to look at a painting guaranteed to be beautiful, can you really say that both our subjective experiences result from the painting's features itself without our own experiences influencing why we might find something beautiful? Even if I truly don't experience beauty by looking at the painting, does it somehow invalidate your experience of a beautiful painting?