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Eye of the Beholder

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(various B pencils, 2B mechanical pencil and white water paint on A4 colored paper)

This is an allusion to the well-known painting "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass)" by Édouard Manet.
It always seems to me that the original of Manet is a free show of public nudity and the viewer is a peeping Tom.
So, the correlation between this example and the title's direct reference to the saying "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" works as an allegory not only about beauty or nudity but about art, in general (representational, in particular).
(This is just one of the many hypothetical interpretations, it might have been subjective and contrived, please feel free to overlook it and give your own version. I'm curious.)
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MTLs-Imaging's avatar
Beautiful!
Remind me of some of my father's work!
Well done!