The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Although I only read a few chapters of this book It really surprised me on how hard some of these Jewish families were living and it really makes me stop to think about everything that we don't take time to appreciate in life because at times it's so easy to notice the horrible things that are happening to you but when good things happen they aren't noticed as much.
And from what I learned this book is Anne Frank's diary which was found by her dad who survived the Holocaust and managed to get back to where his family (Anne plus her sister and mother) lived and he found his daughter Anne's diary and published it in memory of her.
I noticed that a lot of her writting in the diary was actually very well written for her only being 13 years old at the time and I wonder if they touched it up a little before they published it or was that just how she spoke/wrote?
Here is a line from the book that I would like to comment on "Anyway, it certainly shows that there are lots of officers and generals who are sick of the war and would like to see Hitler descend into aottomless pit. When they'e disposed of Hitler, their aim is to establish a military dictator, who will make peace with the Allies, then they intend to rearm and start another war in about 20 years' time." This quote struck me because Anne knows that Hitler is a horrible man, but yet she never says it as if she is saying it, she tends to use some one else to hate him such as in this quote. I also can't seem to figure out why so many people these days are willing to protest against President Bush or anythign they dissagree with, but then back then there were barely ever protest and it seemed to be that people didn't tend to revolt as much. This also relates the starting of African American slaves, although there were many African American's, they never really rebelled against the whites which made the white people incontrol of them. It is just kind of eye opening on how people are finally starting to stand up for themselves and realize that anyones voice or actions can makea difference.

Is some art better than others? If so then who decides that?

Well when art is brought up the question of what is art is also brought up. And after speaking to Stephanie Clair, she would say that art is an emotion you can put into your piece and if your personality and feeling aren't put into your art then it's not necessarily art. To me a lot of things can be art whether or not it was meant to be but I do agree with her, but it's also hard to decide what is good art and what is bad art. The reason why I am bringing this up is because I'm trying to decide which piece that I drew in class would be the best to be made into a bigger painting. I don't have that many drawings but I want to choose one that will look professional in the end. It took me a while to decide which drawing but I have decided to choose a water color painting I did of a close up shot of a woman's face, she has bright red lips brown wavy hair and bright green eyes. I chose this drawing because I put a lot of time into it and it's simple but still has very important details of the female face. It took me a while to decide if I wanted to choose this painting or not because not only do I want to be proud of it but I want the rest of the people who look at it and enjoy it as well.

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I met the painter Stephanie Clair today.

As I was researching different art galleries in La Jolla I happened to find an art gallery called "Eagle Fine Art Gallery" so I called the gallery and asked if I could come in and interview one of the artist who's paintings are displayed there, and lucky enough Stephanie Clair an artist I have never heard of was coming into town today, and she welcomed me to come and interview her.
I first looked for her website and looked at some of the art that she's done and she paints mostly Romantic Cubism, which I really never had any interest toward that type of art, untilI met her and seen her paintings. She is a full time artist and started her painting career in San Diego, California and she use to live in a small town that wasn't really exciting so she drew on her spare time. She had a very good attitude and answered all my questions and was really open about her life and she became the artist that she is today. Some of my questions were, is it difficult to make paintings that not only you like but other people in order for your art to sell? and she had some really interesting stories about her growing up and how she finally realized that she wanted to paint more than just landscape which then got her into Romantic Cubism. Her paintings had very strong messages and others just made you think about life in general and how we take some things for granted, and she explained to me a lot about just following what you think is best in life and through that you will be successful if you keep your mind set on that, and I believe that she is a very powerful woman that is down to earth and she had a lot of positive things to say about life overall. I really learned a lot from what she told me and I wanted to write down as much as I could but she had so much to say and I wanted to focus on what she was trying to tell me but I definitely learned a lot from meeting her. I wasn't very into Cubism until I saw her art work and it showed me a better side of it that I didn't really understand at first. She was the perfect person to interview because I learned so much about art, her life as a painter, and some techniques that will take anyone far in life.


If you go to her website Stephanieclair.com then you will see her paintings and you can read a little more about her.

Poetry Project: How to Find Love

The Poem I wrote was called "How to Find Love" and it was a sonit. My poem was pretty simple because it was kind of like directions on how to find love. Sort of like the step by step maps you can got on map quest or other maps like that. I really liked the idea of having to find Love, and I chose it because everyone is always trying to find the Love of their life and I know that my directions are not exact because it's not that easy to just fond love but it's a very good topic to talk about because I think everyone could relate to it. Such as If I wrote "How to Clean Your Room" this could be an interesting topic to some but not everyone, while Love can be related to anyone who is willing to look.
I had to decide what could I transform this poem to?I could trnasform it into a painting, a song, a photograph, a graphic design or even a dance. Since my poem is step by step on how to find Love, I decided to make a panflet sort of like the panflets on the airplanes. I drew a picture for every step and so you could proably just look at the drawings and tell what the poem is about. I really liked this project because I don't usually write poems, but then getting to trnasform them into what we want, I thought that was a great idea.

[picture and poem coming soon]