The phrase "a brilliant eye" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who has a keen perception or insight, particularly in areas like art, design, or observation.
Example: "The photographer has a brilliant eye for capturing the perfect moment."
Alternatives: "a keen eye" or "an astute eye".
Artistic director Val Bourne has a brilliant eye for championing new work.
Caro marries profound psychological insight with a brilliant eye for the drama of the times.
This became the standard Tim Burton criticism: he had a brilliant eye and no ear.
"He managed to photograph the way they lived, and he had a brilliant eye for the telling detail".
But Moses Pendleton, who conceived and directed the suite of 21 vignettes, has a brilliant eye and mind.
Hammet and Chandler were dry-eyed craftsmen with a brilliant eye for atmosphere; Bonfiglioli is a mess with a brilliant sense of human appetites.
The Flemish nobleman wrote his Letters while on an ambassadorial mission to Istanbul between 1554 and 1562, making him a brilliant eye-witness of the Ottoman state at its height, under Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent.
When an atheist sees the light, it comes like a brilliant, eye-opening beacon of truth: The man made God concept is what separates you from the light of reality.
I've yet to meet a budding makeup artist without at least a couple of these brilliant eye palettes in his or her kit.
All this from a man who, in his 11th year in the side, looked a player destined to be remembered for his brilliant eye for a white ball who was too talented to leave out of the Test side, but who'd never really found a settled place in it.
But Sonnabend's brilliant eye had an intolerable blind spot: with the exception of a rotating video program, the show includes just one solo female artist, the pioneering color photographer Jan Groover, among more than three dozen men.
