What is the postal art?

Mail Art is an artwork created specifically for traveling by a regular postal service, and works of art are often placed on a postcard or envelope, but the medium may also contain a package. The related type of contemporary art, called Artistramps, is the practice of designing art in the size and shape of the postal stamp, not to replace the real stamp, but to decorate the envelope next to the real stamp. Artists who participate in postal art can create their pieces by painting, drawing, rubberstamping or printing. They can create a collage or use other methods to create their works of art.

There are two different beliefs about when postal art has been created. One camp believes that the art form began with artist Marcel Duchamp, who in 1916 sent a dose of his personally created postcards. The second camp says that art post office was first conceived by another artist Ray Johnson at the age of 50, when she sent her work of art, including collages. After the Ray Johnson post office, inThe formal group of artists have been created to do the same with their works of art, sent them by post and be called the New York Corespondency School of Art. About two decades after Ray Johnson's first postal art was delivered by postal service, the artistic form of popularity was gained after the Whitney Museum of American Art. In the figures, the performance grew and the postal arts and magazines began to write about it and further spread the word.

The art form, sometimes written "MailArt", is presented in a powerful project called Post Secret, which publishes new examples on the Internet every Sunday morning. People send postcards with their secrets written on them by a limited number of words accompanied by their own personal work. Unlike traditional postal arts where artists send their creations to many different people, artists who send their creations to publish a secretTeli the website, Frank Warren, with the hope of being published. On their postal journey, however, these little work of art like other postal arts in that anyone who deals or comes into contact with postcards sees and reads them.