Comments - What is Mailart? - International Union of Mail-Artists2024-03-29T15:53:32Zhttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=2496677%3ABlogPost%3A1757254&xn_auth=noOh Bhomas, Bhomas, I feel you…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2015-04-20:2496677:Comment:17574972015-04-20T04:30:16.862ZLinda Frenchhttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/LindaFayeFrench
<p>Oh Bhomas, Bhomas, I feel your pain and horror.</p>
<p>Oh Bhomas, Bhomas, I feel your pain and horror.</p> i make sloppy mail art someti…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2015-04-20:2496677:Comment:17574152015-04-20T04:00:30.558ZMail Art Newshttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/BhomasTrown
<p>i make sloppy mail art sometimes and i am ashamed. i made some tonight. there were some errors. i feel horror. i thirst for purity. I have an unquenchable thirst for purity. lol. what?</p>
<p>i make sloppy mail art sometimes and i am ashamed. i made some tonight. there were some errors. i feel horror. i thirst for purity. I have an unquenchable thirst for purity. lol. what?</p> Thank you very much, Linda, f…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2015-04-19:2496677:Comment:17572332015-04-19T20:32:38.281ZHeleen de Vaanhttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/HeleendeVaan
<p>Thank you very much, Linda, for your further explanation. I love to read thoughts about mail art (as I do love mail art :-) ) so thank you for all your food for thought!</p>
<p>Thank you very much, Linda, for your further explanation. I love to read thoughts about mail art (as I do love mail art :-) ) so thank you for all your food for thought!</p> Linda ... thanks for your re…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2015-04-19:2496677:Comment:17573742015-04-19T20:22:46.343Zstan askewhttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/stanaskew
<p> Linda ... thanks for your recent visit to my page and for making the time to share your thoughts and observations regarding mail art. LOVE the camel video, and i very much appreciate Katerina and Heleen's comments, as well.</p>
<p> Linda ... thanks for your recent visit to my page and for making the time to share your thoughts and observations regarding mail art. LOVE the camel video, and i very much appreciate Katerina and Heleen's comments, as well.</p> I should have mentioned that…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2015-04-19:2496677:Comment:17572232015-04-19T16:53:04.530ZLinda Frenchhttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/LindaFayeFrench
<p>I should have mentioned that anyone who does think mailart isn't real art hasn't ever looked at the main photo gallery. Right all?</p>
<p>I should have mentioned that anyone who does think mailart isn't real art hasn't ever looked at the main photo gallery. Right all?</p> Oh Heleen and Katerina! I loo…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2015-04-19:2496677:Comment:17574592015-04-19T16:48:03.159ZLinda Frenchhttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/LindaFayeFrench
<p>Oh Heleen and Katerina! I look back and see that what i wrote is both unclear and incomplete. I agree with both of you, just did not express myself well/completely. Let me try to fix it. :) </p>
<p>I believe that mailart is real art, and as an artform, it's serious art. What I intended to convey is that there is a lightheartedness in mailart that lacks the stuffiness of "conventional" art. It also breaks the barrier of art and formal correspondence by being accessible to anyone who cares…</p>
<p>Oh Heleen and Katerina! I look back and see that what i wrote is both unclear and incomplete. I agree with both of you, just did not express myself well/completely. Let me try to fix it. :) </p>
<p>I believe that mailart is real art, and as an artform, it's serious art. What I intended to convey is that there is a lightheartedness in mailart that lacks the stuffiness of "conventional" art. It also breaks the barrier of art and formal correspondence by being accessible to anyone who cares to participate. Since it is also an expression of generosity (or maybe it should be?) judgement is at least partially, if not wholly, suspended. </p>
<p>I always want my mailart to be enjoyed, whether it's 'art' or 'craft' or just 'hi.' It's the doing of it that is art. If the piece produced is art, too, that's a real bonus. Personally, I also think most of our mailart is real art. And maybe all of it is. But the engagement in the process and the extension of ourselves going out into the world through mailart, that is, to me the true art. No matter the skill or the vision. We all just voluntarily contribute to the body of work called mailart. </p>
<p>For now, I think that 'craft' and 'art' are only separated by a very thin, often blurred, line, and I think I should give <em><strong>that</strong></em> more thought before I say more about it. LOL!</p>
<p>Thank you for your comments. They are so welcome to me. --Linda</p> 'Love that running camel...gi…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2015-04-19:2496677:Comment:17572072015-04-19T13:39:13.635ZKaterina Nikoltsou (MomKat)http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/KaterinaNikoltsou
<p>'Love that running camel...gives a great smile for today! :-)</p>
<p>Thanks Linda!</p>
<p>'Love that running camel...gives a great smile for today! :-)</p>
<p>Thanks Linda!</p> 'Have to agree with Heleen! E…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2015-04-19:2496677:Comment:17571932015-04-19T09:07:58.313ZKaterina Nikoltsou (MomKat)http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/KaterinaNikoltsou
<p>'Have to agree with Heleen! Every piece on mail art in the mailbox is art...</p>
<p>"no jury" :-)</p>
<p>It is not"cr*p", it is not "sloppy", it is not "bad"...IT IS!</p>
<p>and someone made it, created it...digitally even, or photocopied,</p>
<p>or an original painting,collage, montage, print, artistamp, boekie, TLP,ATC, add 'n pass, etc.,etc. etc.</p>
<p>Each piece, just to add the postage stamp and address and SEND it in the mail= MAIL ART!</p>
<p>(and very well appreciated by my postman…</p>
<p>'Have to agree with Heleen! Every piece on mail art in the mailbox is art...</p>
<p>"no jury" :-)</p>
<p>It is not"cr*p", it is not "sloppy", it is not "bad"...IT IS!</p>
<p>and someone made it, created it...digitally even, or photocopied,</p>
<p>or an original painting,collage, montage, print, artistamp, boekie, TLP,ATC, add 'n pass, etc.,etc. etc.</p>
<p>Each piece, just to add the postage stamp and address and SEND it in the mail= MAIL ART!</p>
<p>(and very well appreciated by my postman and me :-)</p>
<p>Keep making...keep sending!</p> (And if someone's intention i…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2015-04-19:2496677:Comment:17569432015-04-19T09:02:51.130ZHeleen de Vaanhttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/HeleendeVaan
<p>(And if someone's intention is creating craft, and sending the mail as craft, then it is craft. And that is o.k., too.)</p>
<p>(And if someone's intention is creating craft, and sending the mail as craft, then it is craft. And that is o.k., too.)</p> Nice blog, great camel :-)
T…tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2015-04-19:2496677:Comment:17569412015-04-19T08:56:24.078ZHeleen de Vaanhttp://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/HeleendeVaan
<p>Nice blog, great camel :-)</p>
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<p>The people who have too high expectations of you as an artist (and/or whom you accept to have too high expectations) have forgotten that they are artists themselves, too.</p>
<p>I agree with what Picasso said: Every person was born an artist. The hard thing is to maintain this once grown up.</p>
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<p>Mail art indeed is fun, sure :-)</p>
<p>However I have to disagree that mail art also is 'making things that no one will mistake for serious art'.…</p>
<p>Nice blog, great camel :-)</p>
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<p>The people who have too high expectations of you as an artist (and/or whom you accept to have too high expectations) have forgotten that they are artists themselves, too.</p>
<p>I agree with what Picasso said: Every person was born an artist. The hard thing is to maintain this once grown up.</p>
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<p>Mail art indeed is fun, sure :-)</p>
<p>However I have to disagree that mail art also is 'making things that no one will mistake for serious art'. To me each mail art made with serious intentions (to be sent as art, not craft) is serious art. Maybe people around us are not ready yet, or have lost the ability, to see the art within (similar to the surrounding people's reactions in times of CoBrA art, pop art, dada etc), but if we ourselves consider it art, it ís Art.</p>
<p style="display: inline !important;">And of course we care, of course it does matter (we = the receiver, and in case of colourful envelopes in which the stamp is hard to find, the post company cares), we are artists, not 'nobody'.</p>
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<p style="display: inline !important;">But you'll probably mean that in mail art we can show our real free inside. Being an autonomous, real free artist :-)</p>