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Fourth graders examine and demonstrate how to create a middle ground, background, and foreground on a picture or work of art. They identify middle ground, background, and foreground on Michael Sowa's works of art, then create their own picture using three different sizes of different colored construction paper.

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4th
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Visual & Performing Arts
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