ADVANCED DRAWING

Hanouf Alharbi

Advanced Drawing

May, 2^nd 2018

Mail Art Project

Mail art is also known as postal art and correspondence art, and it is a populist artistic movement centered on sending small scale works through the postal service.

Media commonly used in mail art include postcards, paper, a collage of found or recycled images and objects, rubber stamps, artist created stamps, and paint, but can also include music, sound art, poetry, or anything that can be put in an envelope and sent via post. Mail art is considered art once it is dispatched.

In addition, it is an art that's created with the intention of sending it through the mail. can include postcards, faux postage, decorated envelopes, friendship books, and the ever popular naked mail. There is no money exchanges hands. In general, mail art is exchanged between artists, not bought and sold. There aren't usually fees involved to participate in mail art projects. Mail art is given freely, without the expectation of something in return. Also no judgments are made about the artwork or its quality. You get what you get. Once the envelope has been dropped into the mail, forget about it.

For this project, I used sharpies, watercolor, and collage. In the beginning, I was thinking to draw on the envelops, but then I decided to draw on pieces of papers and put it inside the envelops, just to make sure that it will make it safer. What I like it in this project is that I found it so fun because we usually use technology to connect to each other or send emails, but this project was new for me since I haven't sent any of my artworks by mails. I have to send a mail art to each person in my class plus the professor. So I was thinking why I don’t make something that relate to the person that I will send her/him the mail. For example, my professor Cindy she has two circles tattoos on her hand. So I thought I will draw circles using different mediums and colors. I made the same strategy with my class mate. I made related art to each one, and each piece has different medium, but most of them based on sharpies and ink. However, the additional materials are different. Some I add watercolor, and some collage, pencil, ..etc.

2- Anna Banana

is a Canadian artist known for her performance art, writing, and work as a small press publisher. She has been described as an "innovator, entrepreneur and critic", and pioneered the artistamp, a postage-stamp-size medium. She has been prominent in the mail art movement since the early 1970s, acting as a bridge between the movement’s early history and its second generation. As a publisher, Banana launched Vile magazine and the "Banana Rag" newsletter; the latter became Artistamp News in 1996. Banana lives in British Columbia and operates Banana Productions, calling herself the "Top Banana".The International Art Post is the sole publication of Banana Productions, with 700 copies produced for each edition.

3- Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, born in Brescia in 1914 (died 1990), came into contact with the art world in the Forties when he collected abstract works. Portrayed by the greatest artists of the age, including Rotella, Warhol and Ceroli, Cavellini began his multidimensional career as an artist in the Sixties, by taking everyday objects, and also works of his own or by other artists, and then transforming or destroying them.

1- Raymond Edward "Ray" Johnson

was an American artist. Known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist, he was a seminal figure in the history of Neo-Dada and early Pop art and was described as "New York's most famous unknown artist". Johnson also staged and participated in early performance art events as the founder of a far-ranging mail art network, the New York Correspondence School, which picked up momentum in the 1960s and is still active today. He is occasionally associated with members of the Fluxus movement but was never a member. He lived in New York City from 1949 to 1968, when he moved to a small town in Long Island and remained there until his suicide.