<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from artrift.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 artrift.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-11-17T17:04:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-10-08:links.412184706</id><title>Art is a Pillar: Odilon Redon</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/art_is_a_pillar_odilon_redon_1.htm"><![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,]]></content><dc:subject>redon</dc:subject><dc:subject>quotations</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/art_is_a_pillar_odilon_redon_1.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-10-08T14:28:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-08T14:28:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-10-04:links.412184462</id><title>Leisure and the Artist: Odilon Redon</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/leisure_and_the_artist_odilon_redon.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>redon</dc:subject><dc:subject>quotations</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/leisure_and_the_artist_odilon_redon.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-10-04T22:51:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-04T22:51:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-10-03:links.412184929</id><title>When is a Painting Finished? - Balthus</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/when_is_a_painting_finished__balthus.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>quotations</dc:subject><dc:subject>balthus</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/when_is_a_painting_finished__balthus.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-10-03T11:49:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-03T11:49:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-10-02:links.412184458</id><title>Regret and the Perfect Work of Art: Odilon Redon</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/on_the_perfect_work_of_art_odilon_redon.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>redon</dc:subject><dc:subject>quotations</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/on_the_perfect_work_of_art_odilon_redon.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-10-02T12:50:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-02T12:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-10-01:links.412184202</id><title>To See: Odilon Redon</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/to_see_odilon_redon.htm"><![CDATA[&quot;To see is to spontaneously grasp the relationships between things.&quot; Odilon Redon, , p.40]]></content><dc:subject>redon</dc:subject><dc:subject>quotations</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/to_see_odilon_redon.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-10-01T12:56:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-01T12:56:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-09-30:links.412184271</id><title>Cezanne: On Art &amp; Nature</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/cezanne_on_art__nature.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>quotations</dc:subject><dc:subject>cezanne</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/cezanne_on_art__nature.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-09-30T13:15:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-30T13:15:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-09-29:links.412184200</id><title>Artist or Dilettante: Odilon Redon</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/artist_or_dilettante_odilon_redon.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>quotations</dc:subject><dc:subject>redon</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/artist_or_dilettante_odilon_redon.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-09-29T12:10:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-29T12:10:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-09-29:links.412184394</id><title>What is an Artist? Agnes Martin</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/what_is_an_artist.htm"><![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;]]></content><dc:subject>quotations</dc:subject><dc:subject>agnes martin</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/what_is_an_artist.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-09-29T00:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-29T00:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-09-27:links.412184191</id><title>Art Borrows Nothing from Philosophy: Odilon Redon</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/art_borrows_nothing_from_philosophy_odilon_redon.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>quotations</dc:subject><dc:subject>art  philosophy</dc:subject><dc:subject>redon</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/art_borrows_nothing_from_philosophy_odilon_redon.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-09-27T14:29:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-27T14:29:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-09-25:links.412184116</id><title>The Tangible Immaterial Means of Expression: Rainer Maria Rilke</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_tangible_immaterial_means_of_expression_rainer_maria_ri.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>quotations</dc:subject><dc:subject>rilke</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_tangible_immaterial_means_of_expression_rainer_maria_ri.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-09-25T17:15:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-25T17:15:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-09-22:links.412183633</id><title>The Second Palisades Interview, Part IX</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_ix.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_ix.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-09-22T13:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-22T13:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-09-21:links.412183631</id><title>The Second Palisades Interview, Part VIII</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_viii.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_viii.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-09-21T13:13:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-21T13:13:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-09-20:links.412183561</id><title>The Second Palisades Interview, Part VII</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_vii.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_vii.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-09-20T13:12:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-20T13:12:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-09-19:links.412183394</id><title>The Second Palisades Interview, Part VI</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_vi.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>palisades</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_vi.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-09-19T13:12:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-19T13:12:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-09-18:links.412183390</id><title>The Second Palisades Interview, Part V</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_v_1.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>palisades</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_v_1.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-09-18T13:11:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-18T13:11:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-09-17:links.412183364</id><title>The Second Palisades Interview, Part IV</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_iv_1.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>palisades</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_iv_1.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-09-17T13:11:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-17T13:11:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-09-16:links.412182576</id><title>The Second Palisades Interview, Part III</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_iii.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>palisades</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_iii.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-09-16T13:11:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-16T13:11:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-09-15:links.412182575</id><title>The Second Palisades Interview, Part II</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_ii.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>palisades</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_second_palisades_interview_part_ii.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-09-15T13:06:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-15T13:06:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-09-14:links.412182565</id><title>The Second Palisades Interview: Part I</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_palisades_interview_part_iia_1.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>palisades</dc:subject><dc:subject>interview</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_palisades_interview_part_iia_1.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-09-14T13:29:00Z</updated><published>2009-09-14T13:29:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-07-30:links.412178158</id><title>Artistic Discouragement: Manet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Monet, et al</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/artistic_discouragement_manet_monet_et_al.htm"><![CDATA[&nbsp;Artistic DiscouragementTIMELINE: 1865 - Manet, discouraged and angry destroys several of his works.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/artistic_discouragement_manet_monet_et_al.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-07-30T13:10:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-30T13:10:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-07-28:links.412177985</id><title>Etienne-Jules Marey - Studies of Air Movements</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/etiennejules_marey__studies_of_air_movements.htm"><![CDATA[&nbsp;Etienne-Jules Marey - Studies of air movements&nbsp;]]></content><dc:subject>art history</dc:subject><dc:subject>visser painting</dc:subject><dc:subject>photography</dc:subject><dc:subject>cistant connections</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/etiennejules_marey__studies_of_air_movements.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-07-28T18:20:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-28T18:20:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-07-26:links.412177809</id><title>A Nation of Artists: Ancient Yoruba</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/a_nation_of_artists_yoruba.htm"><![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]]></content><dc:subject>art history</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/a_nation_of_artists_yoruba.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-07-26T15:01:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-26T15:01:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-07-24:links.412177673</id><title>The Greatest Obstacle to the Creation &amp; Enjoyment of Art</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_greatest_obstacle_to_the_creation__enjoyment_of_art.htm"><![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,]]></content><dc:subject>theory</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/the_greatest_obstacle_to_the_creation__enjoyment_of_art.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-07-24T16:58:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-24T16:58:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-07-23:links.412177546</id><title>Artrift: 100 Best Scholarly Art Blogs</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/artrift_100_best_scholarly_art_blogs.htm"><![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.]]></content><dc:subject>awards</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/artrift_100_best_scholarly_art_blogs.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-07-23T02:40:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-23T02:40:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:artrift.blog-city.com,2009-07-22:links.412177544</id><title>Jonathan Harvey: I Am Multiple</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://artrift.blog-city.com/jonathan_harvey_i_am_multiple.htm"><![CDATA[&nbsp;Jonathan Harvey: I Am Multiple]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://artrift.blog-city.com/jonathan_harvey_i_am_multiple.htm"/><dc:creator>Rick Visser</dc:creator><author><name>Rick Visser</name></author><updated>2009-07-22T22:43:00Z</updated><published>2009-07-22T22:43:00Z</published></entry></feed>