<?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 2009 artrift.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:04:00 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>Art is a Pillar: Odilon Redon</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/art_is_a_pillar_odilon_redon_1.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/art_is_a_pillar_odilon_redon_1.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=art%5Fis%5Fa%5Fpillar%5Fodilon%5Fredon%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&quot;Art is, for one who loves it, a pillar; you cannot deny the support you find there for spiritual maintenance. The reading of a beautiful book, of a single page of this book, the accent of a chord of supreme harmony, a known song heard suddenly,]]></description><category>redon</category><category>quotations</category></item><item><title>Leisure and the Artist: Odilon Redon</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/leisure_and_the_artist_odilon_redon.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/leisure_and_the_artist_odilon_redon.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:51:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=leisure%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fartist%5Fodilon%5Fredon</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&quot;You must love naturally, lazily, for joy, for the joy we will receive one day like a grace.&nbsp; This reveals the necessity of leisure.&quot;Leisure is not a privelege; it is not a favor; it si not a social injustice; it is the beneficial nece]]></description><category>redon</category><category>quotations</category></item><item><title>When is a Painting Finished? - Balthus</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/when_is_a_painting_finished__balthus.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/when_is_a_painting_finished__balthus.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=when%5Fis%5Fa%5Fpainting%5Ffinished%5F%5Fbalthus</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&quot;I know when it&#39;s finished.&nbsp; That is, when it&#39;s accomplished.&nbsp; When no further touch or trace of color will happen to correct a world that has finally been attained, a secret space finally percieved.&nbsp;So ends the plentiful]]></description><category>quotations</category><category>balthus</category></item><item><title>Regret and the Perfect Work of Art: Odilon Redon</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/on_the_perfect_work_of_art_odilon_redon.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/on_the_perfect_work_of_art_odilon_redon.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=on%5Fthe%5Fperfect%5Fwork%5Fof%5Fart%5Fodilon%5Fredon</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&quot;The natural blossoming and growth of a work cannot come from dilettantism.&nbsp; It would serve perfection marvelously if this were possible.&nbsp; It can only happen in small pieces an dthe author who chould achieve the perfect work, would onl]]></description><category>redon</category><category>quotations</category></item><item><title>To See: Odilon Redon</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/to_see_odilon_redon.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/to_see_odilon_redon.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:56:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=to%5Fsee%5Fodilon%5Fredon</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&quot;To see is to spontaneously grasp the relationships between things.&quot; Odilon Redon, , p.40]]></description><category>redon</category><category>quotations</category></item><item><title>Cezanne: On Art &amp; Nature</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/cezanne_on_art__nature.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/cezanne_on_art__nature.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cezanne%5Fon%5Fart%5F%5Fnature</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&quot;Art is a harmony which runs parallel with nature-- what is one to think of those imbeciles who say that the artist is always inferior to nature?&quot; To Joachim Gasquet, 26 September, 1897]]></description><category>quotations</category><category>cezanne</category></item><item><title>Artist or Dilettante: Odilon Redon</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/artist_or_dilettante_odilon_redon.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/artist_or_dilettante_odilon_redon.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:10:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=artist%5For%5Fdilettante%5Fodilon%5Fredon</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&quot;What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante is only the pain that the artist alone experiences.&nbsp; The dilettante looks to art only for pleasure.&quot;&nbsp; Odilon Redon, To Myself: Notes on Life, Art, &amp; Artists, p.34]]></description><category>quotations</category><category>redon</category></item><item><title>What is an Artist? Agnes Martin</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/what_is_an_artist.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/what_is_an_artist.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=what%5Fis%5Fan%5Fartist</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;What is an Artist?&quot;An artist is one who can fail and fail and still go on.&quot; Agnes Martin, Writings, p93.&nbsp;]]></description><category>quotations</category><category>agnes martin</category></item><item><title>Art Borrows Nothing from Philosophy: Odilon Redon</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/art_borrows_nothing_from_philosophy_odilon_redon.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/art_borrows_nothing_from_philosophy_odilon_redon.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=art%5Fborrows%5Fnothing%5Ffrom%5Fphilosophy%5Fodilon%5Fredon</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&quot;Art borrows nothing from philosophy and has no other source than the soul in the midst of the world surrounding it.&nbsp; Its essence is unknown, as is the essence of life; and its goal is art itself.&quot; 1909]]></description><category>quotations</category><category>art  philosophy</category><category>redon</category></item><item><title>The Tangible Immaterial Means of Expression: Rainer Maria Rilke</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_tangible_immaterial_means_of_expression_rainer_maria_ri.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_tangible_immaterial_means_of_expression_rainer_maria_ri.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Ftangible%5Fimmaterial%5Fmeans%5Fof%5Fexpression%5Frainer%5Fmaria%5Fri</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;The Tangible Immaterial Means of Expression: Rainer Maria Rilke&quot;Somehow I too must find a way of making things; not plastic, written things, but realities that arise from the craft itself. &nbsp;Somehow I too must discover the smallest con]]></description><category>quotations</category><category>rilke</category></item><item><title>The Second Palisades Interview, Part IX</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_ix.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_ix.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fsecond%5Fpalisades%5Finterview%5Fpart%5Fix</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Second Palisades Interview, Part IX    &nbsp;Palisades Portfolio: Image #009, unsigned and undated.&nbsp;    Note: To  see a list of all interview segments (in reverse order), see &#39;Palisades  Interview&#39; in the category list on the side ba]]></description></item><item><title>The Second Palisades Interview, Part VIII</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_viii.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_viii.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fsecond%5Fpalisades%5Finterview%5Fpart%5Fviii</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Second Palisades Interview, Part VIII    &nbsp;    Note: To  see a list of all interview segments (in reverse order), see &#39;Palisades  Interview&#39; in the category list on the side bar.    AD: I see you&rsquo;ve brought back a little somethi]]></description></item><item><title>The Second Palisades Interview, Part VII</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_vii.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_vii.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fsecond%5Fpalisades%5Finterview%5Fpart%5Fvii</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;The Second Palisades Interview, Part VIINote: To see a list of all interview segments (in reverse order), see &#39;Palisades Interview&#39; in the category list on the side bar.]]></description></item><item><title>The Second Palisades Interview, Part VI</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_vi.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_vi.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fsecond%5Fpalisades%5Finterview%5Fpart%5Fvi</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;The Second Palisades Interview, Part VI    &nbsp;    Note: To  see a list of all interview segments (in reverse order), see &#39;Palisades  Interview&#39; in the category list on the side bar.    AD: I&rsquo;ve been  thinking about a remark you]]></description><category>palisades</category></item><item><title>The Second Palisades Interview, Part V</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_v_1.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_v_1.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fsecond%5Fpalisades%5Finterview%5Fpart%5Fv%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;The Second Palisades Interview, Part V    Note: To  see a list of all interview segments (in reverse order), see &#39;Palisades  Interview&#39; in the category list on the side bar.&nbsp;    AD: Your career has  not exactly been a lesson in how]]></description><category>palisades</category></item><item><title>The Second Palisades Interview, Part IV</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_iv_1.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_iv_1.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fsecond%5Fpalisades%5Finterview%5Fpart%5Fiv%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Second Palisades Interview, Part IVAD: Speaking of fables, I wonder if you would tell us what really happened on the Palmerin Bridge?CE: (Laughing) Well, that was some time ago...and there are now, as you know, at least a hundred versions of what]]></description><category>palisades</category></item><item><title>The Second Palisades Interview, Part III</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_iii.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_iii.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fsecond%5Fpalisades%5Finterview%5Fpart%5Fiii</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Second Palisades Interview, Part IIIAD: To be continued...Note: Artrift will publish a portion of&nbsp;The Second Palisades Interview on a weekly basis, more often if weather permits. The number of segments will correspond to the number of&nbsp;w]]></description><category>palisades</category></item><item><title>The Second Palisades Interview, Part II</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_ii.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_ii.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fsecond%5Fpalisades%5Finterview%5Fpart%5Fii</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Second Palisades Interview, Part IIAD: It is a commonplace to say that art must speak to the times...reflect the times, engage the questions inherent in the contemporary milieu. Yet, I heard you once say (I think it was at Hamet&#39;s), that the]]></description><category>palisades</category></item><item><title>The Second Palisades Interview: Part I</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_palisades_interview_part_iia_1.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_palisades_interview_part_iia_1.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fpalisades%5Finterview%5Fpart%5Fiia%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Palisades Interview, Pt II AD: In our previous interview, you spoke about art as if it were something sacred, or nearly sacred. Do you still feel this way?CE: Let me say immediately that you have most certainly misunderstood what I said. Others h]]></description><category>palisades</category><category>interview</category></item><item><title>Artistic Discouragement: Manet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Monet, et al</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/artistic_discouragement_manet_monet_et_al.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/artistic_discouragement_manet_monet_et_al.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:10:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=artistic%5Fdiscouragement%5Fmanet%5Fmonet%5Fet%5Fal</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Artistic DiscouragementTIMELINE: 1865 - Manet, discouraged and angry destroys several of his works.]]></description></item><item><title>Etienne-Jules Marey - Studies of Air Movements</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/etiennejules_marey__studies_of_air_movements.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/etiennejules_marey__studies_of_air_movements.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:20:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=etiennejules%5Fmarey%5F%5Fstudies%5Fof%5Fair%5Fmovements</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Etienne-Jules Marey - Studies of air movements&nbsp;]]></description><category>art history</category><category>visser painting</category><category>photography</category><category>cistant connections</category></item><item><title>A Nation of Artists: Ancient Yoruba</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/a_nation_of_artists_yoruba.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/a_nation_of_artists_yoruba.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fnation%5Fof%5Fartists%5Fyoruba</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Using the example of the things Christians do and believe to bring love into their lives to save their souls through the father-son Gods of their Religion, Jesus Christ and Jehovah; the following is some of the things the Ancient Yoruba did and]]></description><category>art history</category></item><item><title>The Greatest Obstacle to the Creation &amp; Enjoyment of Art</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_greatest_obstacle_to_the_creation__enjoyment_of_art.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_greatest_obstacle_to_the_creation__enjoyment_of_art.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgreatest%5Fobstacle%5Fto%5Fthe%5Fcreation%5F%5Fenjoyment%5Fof%5Fart</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;The Greatest Obstacle to the Creation &amp; Enjoyment of ArtE. H. Gombrich: &quot;&quot;There is no greater obstacle to the enjoyment of great works of art than our unwillingness to discard habits and prejudices.&quot; &nbsp;(The Story of Art,]]></description><category>theory</category></item><item><title>Artrift: 100 Best Scholarly Art Blogs</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/artrift_100_best_scholarly_art_blogs.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/artrift_100_best_scholarly_art_blogs.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:40:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=artrift%5F100%5Fbest%5Fscholarly%5Fart%5Fblogs</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Artrift: 100 Best Scholarly Art BlogsI am happy to report that Artrift has been selected as one the 100 Best Scholarly Art Blogs on Online University Reviews.]]></description><category>awards</category></item><item><title>Jonathan Harvey: I Am Multiple</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://artrift.blog-city.com/jonathan_harvey_i_am_multiple.htm</guid><link>http://artrift.blog-city.com/jonathan_harvey_i_am_multiple.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://artrift.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=jonathan%5Fharvey%5Fi%5Fam%5Fmultiple</comments><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Jonathan Harvey: I Am Multiple]]></description></item></channel></rss>