( fantasy) A fictional monster in roleplaying games, a floating orb of flesh with a large mouth and many eyes on stalks. 'Value is in the eye of the beholder' is not an established idiom or proverb, but by following the same format as 'Beauty is in the eye of the. beholder ( plural beholders ) Someone who observes or beholds an observer or spectator. And it is the Renaissance which, for the first time, not only affirms but formally legitimizes and rationalizes these three forms of subjectivity. The only definition of 'beauty' is when someone looks at something and says 'That is beautiful.' In other words, it is only defined by its being sighted ('in the eye') by a person ('of a beholder').

Organic movement introduces into the calculus of artistic composition the subjective will and the subjective emotions of the thing represented foreshortening the subjective visual experience of the artist and those 'eurhythmic' adjustments which alter that which is right in favor of what seems right, the subjective visual experience of a potential beholder. Others will see evil incarnate getting exactly whats deserved. Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. These three factors of variation have one thing in common: they all presuppose the artistic recognition of subjectivity. Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them and each mind perceives a different beauty. We have repeatedly seen that there were these circumstances which could compel the artist to make a distinction between the 'technical' proportions and the 'objective ' the influence of organic movement, the influence of perspective foreshortening, and the regard for the visual impression of the beholder. “These two developments throw light on what is perhaps the most fundamental difference between the Renaissance and all previous periods of art.

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