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• Art students use bottle caps to replicate Van Gogh’s Starry Night 三萬個寶特瓶蓋 曉明生拼「星夜」

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  The students at Stella Matutina Girls’ High School in Taichung are pretty amazing. The school’s art department has used more than 30,000 plastic bottle caps to compose a copy of Vincent Van Gogh’s famous painting Starry Night. In the process, they experienced the beauty of combining environmental protection with art. After going through this novel teaching course, the students said it was “really cool.”

  Art teacher Wu Ching-chuan says he came up with the idea of making an artwork using readily available bottle caps, the aim being to teach his students that if you can just think a little creatively, even simple things can be used as art materials. The project is an extension of the school’s long-standing promotion of environmental education. To get the bottle tops needed for creating the artwork, he insisted that the students could not buy drinks, instead asking them to collect bottle tops that were going to be recycled.

  Although this was an experiential course for first-year high school students, it attracted teachers and students from the whole school to help collect the bottle caps. It was also necessary to provide for the painting’s colors, so teachers and students exerted themselves to help collect bottle tops in a wide range of hues. There were also alumni and parents who thought this course was really interesting and joined in the effort. Even some elderly people who collect resources for recycling brought in bottle caps of their own accord.

  

  Teachers and students at Stella Matutina Girls’ High School in Taichung on Nov. 19 pose beside a copy of Van Gogh’s Starry Night that they made using more than 30,000 recycled bottle caps. 台中曉明女中師生十一月十九日在他們用三萬多個回收寶特瓶瓶蓋「蓋」出來的梵谷名畫「星夜」旁邊合照。

  Photo: Su Meng-chuan, Liberty Times
  照片：自由時報記者蘇孟娟

  As a result, between July and November, members of the public joined forces to collect more 30,000 bottle caps in an array of colors. Wu says there were plenty of blue and white ones but black, red and brown ones were harder to collect. After considering how many caps of various colors had been collected, he eventually chose Van Gough’s famous painting Starry Night as the model for the group’s artwork.

  (Liberty Times, translated by Julian Clegg)

  台中曉明女中師生「蓋」厲害！美術課用逾三萬個寶特瓶回收瓶蓋，「蓋」出梵谷名畫「星夜」，體驗環保結合藝術之美，新奇的課程體驗，讓學生喊酷！

  美術教師吳清川說，利用俯拾可得的瓶蓋來創作，就是希望教會學生只要想法多一點創意，簡單的事物也可以作為藝術的材料，延續曉明女中長期推動的環保教育特色，創作所需的瓶蓋來源他要求學生不能新買飲料，改請學生收集回收瓶蓋。

  儘管是國一的體驗課程，但吸引全校師生出動幫忙收集瓶蓋，且要配合畫作色彩，師生全力幫忙收集不同顏色的瓶蓋，有校友及家長覺得課程實在太有意思，也一起幫忙，甚至連回收資源的老人也主動送來瓶蓋。

  結果眾人從七月到十一月合力收集到逾三萬個五顏六色的瓶蓋，吳清川說，以藍、白色最多，黑、紅與橙色的瓶蓋最難收集，考量瓶蓋色彩的收集情況後，最後他選擇梵谷名畫「星夜」作為團體創作的內容。

  (自由時報記者蘇孟娟)

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  1. readily available adj. phr. 俯拾可得 (fu3 shi2 ke3 de2) 例: I always cook using readily available ingredients. (我總是用俯拾可得的材料烹調。) 2. long-standing adj. 長期 (chang2 qi2) 例: Our company has a longstanding policy of free repairs within a year of purchase. (售後一年內免費維修是本公司的長期做法。) 3. of one’s own accord phr. 主動 (zhu3 dong4) 例: The thief returned the stolen property of his own accord. (竊賊主動返還贓物。)
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