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Article by Mail Art by Ruud Janssen 

The founder of Mail Art is considered to be Ray Johnson. It's the 1950s began to distribute envelopes to your friends artists, and then assembled a database of addresses minded. It also drew in the Mail Art, Andy Warhol, too which is rarely done collages for Mail Art.

By it works can be traced the growth of Mail Art. His technique.

• First it was just pictures, stamps on crude rubber and collages.
• Then there's 70h with Xerox. Since Mail artists a great deal and it was impossible to send out to everyone. In addition, many artists have changed the address of residence and work coming to their old address simply disappeared. 
• With the advent of printers copy began to appear more frequently, but as with every etching technique is a genius who ennobles and copy. Now masterpieces on a color printer, too painted the museums. Also, some of the Printer hand made marks.

The envelope also has value even in ancient times when the value was the first mark, precisely with the postmark envelope. And then the artists have thought such a trick: that would have its own manufacturing envelope they send it to the fictitious address for example, in Paris Van Gog - of course he comes back, but has a collector's value.

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