While Langer's definition of beauty in art, bound up with art's 'intrinsically expressive' function, helps us to sidestep some of the limiting associations art can have, it does not entirely eliminate the related association of 'fixedness'. Langer's focus upon expressiveness places primary emphasis upon the qualities of the artwork itself with the role of the percipient being to 'grasp' the beauty of the form through which the subject matter is given full expression.