<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from artrift.blog-city.com</title><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2008 artrift.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 08:39:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from artrift.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Recent Developments, Part I</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/recent_developments_in_photogaphy.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/recent_developments_in_photogaphy.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 12:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=recent%5Fdevelopments%5Fin%5Fphotogaphy</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It has been a long time since my last entry. &nbsp;Since the last post I have been in three exhibitions and won an award in one. &nbsp;Last night &#39;The Edgy&#39; Photography exhibiton opened at the Center For Fine Art Photography opened in Fort Co]]></description></item><item><title>How to Tell a True Triptych from a Pseudo-Triptych</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/how_to_tell_a_true_triptych_from_a_pseudotriptych.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/how_to_tell_a_true_triptych_from_a_pseudotriptych.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=how%5Fto%5Ftell%5Fa%5Ftrue%5Ftriptych%5Ffrom%5Fa%5Fpseudotriptych</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In previous entries on this topic I outlined some of the ways the word &#39;triptych&#39; is now used.&nbsp;Disregarding single images that span three surfaces, or single images simply divided into three sections, the way to tell if a triptych is a t]]></description></item><item><title>On Being Famous &amp; Being Ignored: Saul Leiter &amp; Pablo Picasso</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/on_being_famous__being_ignored_saul_leiter__pablo_picasso.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/on_being_famous__being_ignored_saul_leiter__pablo_picasso.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=on%5Fbeing%5Ffamous%5F%5Fbeing%5Fignored%5Fsaul%5Fleiter%5F%5Fpablo%5Fpicasso</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Saul Leiter: &quot;I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learnt to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked]]></description></item><item><title>My New Web Site Now Fully Functional</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/new_web_site_solstice.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/new_web_site_solstice.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=new%5Fweb%5Fsite%5Fsolstice</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am in the process of designing a new website. &nbsp;If you got here from there, click HERE to return to the Solstice site...I will have a direct link to my main site in the next couple of days. &nbsp;Thanks for your patience.]]></description></item><item><title>Photography Journal: Triptychs &amp; the Oneiric Image</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/photography_journal_triptychs__the_oneiric_image.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/photography_journal_triptychs__the_oneiric_image.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=photography%5Fjournal%5Ftriptychs%5F%5Fthe%5Foneiric%5Fimage</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[First, a fragment of a dream: I am driving a car; it is winter; the snow is deep.  I am in a wide open space but approaching a narrow road that skirts a hill.  The heavy snowfall has left only one passable lane.  A car is coming toward me on that one]]></description></item><item><title>Photography Journal: Nausea &amp; Transcendence: On Having a Misshapen Nose</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/photography_journal_escape_from_selfenclosure.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/photography_journal_escape_from_selfenclosure.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=photography%5Fjournal%5Fescape%5Ffrom%5Fselfenclosure</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[No, when I said &#39;solution&#39; I used&nbsp;too strong a word, or, at least,&nbsp;one that is too easily misconstued.&nbsp; This word&nbsp;might suggest a mystical union...perhaps one might rather say resplendent...surpassing being...widening the]]></description></item><item><title>Photography Journal: Photography &amp; Mimesis</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/jounal_photography__mimesis.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/jounal_photography__mimesis.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=jounal%5Fphotography%5F%5Fmimesis</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&quot;In Plato&rsquo;s day, the word mimesis referred to an actor&rsquo;s performance of his role, an audience&rsquo;s identification with a performance, a pupil&rsquo;s recitation of his lesson, and an apprentice&rsquo;s emulation of his master. Pla]]></description></item><item><title>Photography Journal: Photography &amp; Ecstasy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/journal_photography__ecstasy.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/journal_photography__ecstasy.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=journal%5Fphotography%5F%5Fecstasy</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Perhaps photographs are demeaning...Lacking in ecstasy!paper dolls...]]></description></item><item><title>On Being the Victims of Their Means: Picasso &amp; Eluard</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/victims_of_their_means.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/victims_of_their_means.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=victims%5Fof%5Ftheir%5Fmeans</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;What Picasso&rsquo;s friend, Paul Eluard, said of painters is applicable to photographers as well: &ldquo;Painters have been victims of their means.  Most of them are woefully limited to reproducing the world.  When they made their portraits, i]]></description></item><item><title>Casting Director, Mali Finn, Has Died</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/casting_director_mali_finn_has_died.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/casting_director_mali_finn_has_died.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=casting%5Fdirector%5Fmali%5Ffinn%5Fhas%5Fdied</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[How the obiturary happened to appear in our small-town newspaper is a bit of a mystery to me, but it did, and I was surprised...and saddened.Mali and I worked together at a small elementary school in Michigan many years ago.&nbsp; I think we must hav]]></description></item><item><title>To Be Hopeful in an Artistic Sense...Joseph Conrad</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/to_be_hopeful_in_an_artistic_sensejoseph_conrad.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/to_be_hopeful_in_an_artistic_sensejoseph_conrad.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=to%5Fbe%5Fhopeful%5Fin%5Fan%5Fartistic%5Fsensejoseph%5Fconrad</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Joseph Conrad Listening to Music. Etching by Muirhead Bone&quot;To be hopeful in an artistic sense it is not necessary to think that the world is good.&nbsp; It is enough to believe that there is no impossibility of it being made so.&quot;&nbsp]]></description></item><item><title>New PoetryToday: The Difference Between</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/new_poetrytoday.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/new_poetrytoday.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:48:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=new%5Fpoetrytoday</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Difference BetweenI&nbsp;grabbed&nbsp;a&nbsp;few&nbsp;lines&nbsp;of&nbsp;EuripidesBefore&nbsp;leaving&nbsp;for&nbsp;work&nbsp;today:(Sun,&nbsp;and&nbsp;light&nbsp;of&nbsp;day,O&nbsp;turning&nbsp;wheel&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;sky,&nbsp;chlouds&nbsp;]]></description></item><item><title>W. H. Auden: On The Three Armies of The Goddess of Stupidity</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/w_h_auden_on_the_goddess_of_stupidity_etc.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/w_h_auden_on_the_goddess_of_stupidity_etc.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:41:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=w%5Fh%5Fauden%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fgoddess%5Fof%5Fstupidity%5Fetc</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[W. H. Auden: On The Three Armies of The Goddess of Stupidity]]></description></item><item><title>Beasts of Burden, Photographic Triptych</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/beasts_of_burden_photographic_triptych.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/beasts_of_burden_photographic_triptych.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=beasts%5Fof%5Fburden%5Fphotographic%5Ftriptych</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The fourth of my photographic triptychs can now be seen in the photo gallery at the top right.&nbsp; I have enlarged all the photo images in the gallery, so if you do not have a high resolution monitor, it may be a bit difficult.&nbsp; I have decided]]></description></item><item><title>Still Life with Three Vases</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/still_life_with_three_vases.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/still_life_with_three_vases.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=still%5Flife%5Fwith%5Fthree%5Fvases</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Rick Visser, Still Life with Three Vases, 2007, Computer mediated digital pigment ink print, 15 x 10 in. (38.1 x 25.4 cm.)&nbsp;]]></description></item><item><title>The Contemporary Triptych: Gallia est omnis divisa in partres tres</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_contemporary_triptych_additional_notes.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_contemporary_triptych_additional_notes.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fcontemporary%5Ftriptych%5Fadditional%5Fnotes</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Contemporary Triptych: Gallia est omnis divisa in partres trestriptychs. Calling a work of art a]]></description></item><item><title>The Triptych: Hans Memling - The Last Judgement</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_triptych_hans_memling__the_last_judgement.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_triptych_hans_memling__the_last_judgement.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Ftriptych%5Fhans%5Fmemling%5F%5Fthe%5Flast%5Fjudgement</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hans Memling, The Last Judgement (Triptych).&nbsp;]]></description></item><item><title>Sapling Spine Triptych: The Triptych Photograph, Part II</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/sapling_spine_triptych_the_triptych_photograph_part_ii.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/sapling_spine_triptych_the_triptych_photograph_part_ii.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sapling%5Fspine%5Ftriptych%5Fthe%5Ftriptych%5Fphotograph%5Fpart%5Fii</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Rick Visser, Sapling Spine Triptych, 2007, computer mediated digital pigment ink print.&nbsp;]]></description></item><item><title>The Milkweed Triptych With Commentary on The Triptych Photograph</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/milkweed_series_two_images.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/milkweed_series_two_images.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=milkweed%5Fseries%5Ftwo%5Fimages</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Milkweed Triptych With Commentary on The Triptych Photograph]]></description></item><item><title>The First Man: Paragraph One: Albert Camus</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_first_man_paragraph_one_albert_camus.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_first_man_paragraph_one_albert_camus.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Ffirst%5Fman%5Fparagraph%5Fone%5Falbert%5Fcamus</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Peter Bruegel the Elder (1525-69), Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, (1558) &nbsp;It would be a wonder if there has been no discussion so far of the first paragraph of Albert Camus&rsquo; last book, &lsquo;The First Man.&rsquo; I say this because th]]></description></item><item><title>The End of Stuckism and the Post-Stuckist Manifesto</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_end_of_stuckism_and_the_poststuckist_manifesto.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_end_of_stuckism_and_the_poststuckist_manifesto.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fend%5Fof%5Fstuckism%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fpoststuckist%5Fmanifesto</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A Post-Stuckist Manifesto is easy to remember: Inspiration: &quot;When we wake up in the morning we are inspired to do some certain thing and we do do it.&quot;Discipline: &quot;Artists just go into their studios everyday and shut the door and remain]]></description></item><item><title>Why Studies?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/why_studies.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/why_studies.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=why%5Fstudies</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Rick Visser, Detail from Study for a Still Life (VN IV), 2007, oil and conte drawing pencil on canvas, 20 x 24 in (50.8 x 60.96 cm) A number of people have asked me why I refer to these works as studies.&nbsp; Of course, it is because they are.&nbsp;]]></description></item><item><title>Still Life (VN IV)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/still_life_vn_iv_1.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/still_life_vn_iv_1.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=still%5Flife%5Fvn%5Fiv%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Rick Visser, Study for a Still Life (VN IV), 2007, oil and conte drawing pencil on canvas, 20 x 24 in (50.8 x 60.96 cm)]]></description></item><item><title>Reprise: Two Prerequisites to Learning as an Artist: Wolfgang Rihm</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_two_prerequisites_to_learning_as_an_artist_wolfgang_rihm.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_two_prerequisites_to_learning_as_an_artist_wolfgang_rihm.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Ftwo%5Fprerequisites%5Fto%5Flearning%5Fas%5Fan%5Fartist%5Fwolfgang%5Frihm</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Two Prerequisites to Learning as an Artist: Wolfgang Rihm, Composer
"The encounter with the unnamed, and a full understanding of what this means, are prerequisites if you are to learn as an artist.  Each year my vocabulary grew richer,]]></description></item><item><title>Still Life with Gray Vase</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/still_life_with_gray_vase.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/still_life_with_gray_vase.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=still%5Flife%5Fwith%5Fgray%5Fvase</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Rick Visser, Still Life with Gray Vase, 2007, computer manipulated photograph,&nbsp; 10 x 15 in (25.4 x 38.1 cm)]]></description></item></channel></rss>