영어1 능률 오선영 4과 본문 빈칸

Lesson 4 Spark Your Creativity

Seeing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary

____. When you hear this word, what instantly pops into your mind?

You may think it is a quality that only artists and writers possess— some special talent you are ____ born with or without.

Many people accept the idea that we can be divided into two groups: those who are ____ and those who are not.

This ____ belief, however, is far from the truth.

Everyone has the ability to be ____.

Finding creativity ____ yourself just takes a little effort.

Some artists, for example, spark their creativity by looking closely at ordinary ____.

They try to discover the beauty hidden within these common objects and then turn them into ____ of art.


Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Look at ____ two paintings.

Believe it or not, they both depict the same person, Holy ____ Emperor Rudolf II.

The one on the left might look familiar, as it is a standard style of portrait that you would see in a gallery or an ____ book.

However, the one on the right, ____ Vertumnus, is very unconventional.

Created by a 16th-century Italian painter named Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the painting shows striking ____ and originality.

Fruits, flowers, and vegetables are arranged like the pieces of a puzzle to create a ____ head.

A cherry and a mulberry ____ the dark eyes, while an apple and a peach act as the pink cheeks.

This painting is representative of the artist’s signature style of “____ portraits.”

He used plants, ____, and other objects to create many other portraits like this.

Another good example of Arcimboldo’s unique creativity can be ____ in The Gardener, one of his “reversible” paintings.

When viewed normally, it is just an ordinary still life of ____ in a bowl.

However, when flipped upside down, it is ____ transformed into a smiling face!

Experts have studied this painting, along with Arcimboldo’s ____ reversible ones.

Their research showed that he first painted them as still life paintings and then turned ____ upside down and made some adjustments to create faces.

X-ray examination revealed that he sometimes changed the positions of some of the fruits and ____.

Why did he make his ____ reversible?

It was probably because he wanted to add an interactive ____ to his work by doing so.

Viewers feel as if they are playing a visual game, which brings ____ a sense of pleasure.

Each of Arcimboldo’s works is a careful ____ of everyday objects.

____ he looked at typical objects, such as a bowl of vegetables, he saw the artistic and imaginative potential in them.

His innovative approach to art inspired many great artists who came ____ him, including Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, and René Magritte.


Helga Stentzel

Take a ____ at this picture.

Do you see a horse standing in a ____?

Or is it simply a collection of clothes ____ on a clothesline?

This ____ and amusing creation is actually a work of art created by the visual artist Helga Stentzel.

Using everyday items, she creates playful visual illusions that force you to look twice in order to confirm what you ____ just seen.

Her unique style has been called “household ____.”

Stentzel is perhaps best known for her ____ Animals series.

She got inspiration for the series ____ she was hanging her laundry.

By simply adding some colorful clothespins and a dish towel, she was ____ to transform her black sweatshirt and dark grey pants into a horse.

Other creations followed, including a ____ cow standing on some hills and a zebra crossing the desert.

All of these works were ____ from nothing more than laundry and household items.

Another series that highlights Stentzel’s astonishing creativity is ____ Creatures.

For this series, she arranges food items you can find in ____ kitchen to create cute animals.

The stars of the series are Brad Pet and Crunchie, a ____ of puppies made of sliced bread and lettuce respectively.

Stentzel says she came up with the concept of Crunchie ____ putting together a salad for her family.

What do you think her ____ is?

Stentzel says that it is her ____ observation skills that allow her to make magic out of the ordinary.

As a child, she would spend ____ staring at the patterns in the wood of her bed, trying to find different animal shapes.

She ____ that even today she stares at things longer than is acceptable in society.

This keen observation is ____ enables her to continuously produce creative and imaginative works of art.

Creativity is not some kind of ____ skill that belongs to exclusive groups of people.

It is actually a part of our ____ lives, a power that we can display anytime we choose to.

Whether we realize it or ____, we are constantly using our creativity to adapt, adjust, and rearrange the things around us.

By doing so, we are ____ the ordinary into something extraordinary—something that has never been seen before.

Take a look at the things around you, but ____ just give them a quick glance.

Look carefully, and ____ might discover something that sparks your own imagination and creativity.


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