Men and women

I don't want to say anything offensive, but it occurs to me that men are more visually aware than women. If a man looks at an attractive woman, he finds her attractive purely on a visual level. He doesn't have to know anything about her. He will be attracted to her entirely because she looks nice.
Women, it seems to me, think slightly differently. Of course they prefer good looking men in the same way that men prefer good looking women, but they don't seem to put so much emphasis on it. So I am thinking, are men more sensative to visual aesthetics than women, and therefor better in the fields of artistic endeavour?
I know that women can be as good as men at visual art. But consider the history of painting and sculpture. There are very few women who feature as notable artists. One modern example would be Tracy Emmin, but her work is characterised much more by the emotional content of it than by solely the visual impact it makes on the viewer.
Do men and women see differently? Women seem to see nice shoes and be completely smitten by them. Men don't seem that fussed about shoes. That seems to undermine my point, but generally speaking men do seem to excell over women in painting, sculpture, architecture, and most of the creative arts.
So are men instinctavely better at art than women?
I have heard it said that men rarely read novels written by women. But I find I prefer women novelists. They seem to be better at characterising the subjects in their books.
Men are good at coming up with elaborate plots and so on, but I find that they are rarely good at writing believable dialog.
Look at Dan Brown.
I think women probably do think on a different level to us, and maybe you are better at deep emotional things, and we are better at basic straight-forward things, like painting the spare bed room.