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High School Art Lesson Plan for Surreal Self-portraiture and Social Emotional Learning

By Gwenn Seemel

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Intermediate
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Free
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A practicing painter's own lesson plan for surreal self-portraiture: students study her Everything's Fine series without titles, then build an inspiration list of animals, objects and emotions to translate an inner feeling into symbolic dreamlike imagery instead of a literal likeness.