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Lesson: Elizabeth Peyton: Artist's Community: The Real Lesson PlanLesson: Elizabeth Peyton: Artist's Community: The Real Lesson Plan
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What is real or imagined? The lines of beauty reality, and imagination are blurred in Elizabeth Peyton's portraits of her community. Learners analyze her use of artistic technique in conveying real and imagined communities. They then use multimedia techniques to creat a real or imagined community of their own.

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art analysis, contemporary art, portraiture, visual literacy, romanticism, popular culture

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art analysis, beauty, contemporary art, pop culture, portraits, romanticism, visual literacy, abstraction, art project, Community, androgyny, visual and performing arts
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9th - 12th
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Visual & Performing Arts
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