1. "To be an artist is to believe in life." Henry Moore

2. Artist Trading Cards A Phenomenon

3. A current style – features mechanization and Victorian romantic elements

4. Vocabulary: Miniatures – very small images Recycled - re-purposed Unique - 1 of a kind Specific – adj./ Explicitly set forth; definite. Synonym, explicit.explicit Noun/ Something particularly fitted to a use or purpose. Ephemeral*- – adjective 1. lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory: the ephemeral joys of childhood. 2. lasting but one day: an ephemeral flower. –noun 3. anything short-lived Expressive : effectively conveying meaning or feeling

5. Can you figure out how each of these images was created?

6. Small: 2.5 x 3.5 inches Traded, not sold A communication vehicle & international network Low cost Essentially ATC's are miniature works of mixed media art. Using a wide variety of materials to create new works of art is not new. But what makes it fun and interesting is that this is meant for everyone. All levels of work are welcome. The main goal is that they are created with the idea of sharing them with each other. They can be seen as an artist calling card, and can be whatever the artist wishes them to be. It is art after all, would we expect less?

7. Raushenberg (Robert) Duchamp (Marcel) Matisse (Henri)

8. Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg Retroactive I, 1964, Oil and silkscreen ink on canvas, 84 x 60 in. (213.4 x 152.4 cm), Wadsworth Athenuem, Hartford, Connecticut © Robert Rauschenberg / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

9. Duchamp This painting used to sit at the bottom of the ramp spiraling around inside the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. Once you’d been heading downhill for five flights, you FELT like this painting!

11. Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi (A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon) 1902 (130 Kb); Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 72.5 x 54.5 cm (28 1/2 x 21 1/2 in); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

12. Matisse Interesting edges (not lines…) Book cover of his work…

13. Initiated in 1997 by Zurich artist M.V. Stirnemann, as a means for artists to share, and socialize with other artists. But with today's technology, internet trading groups have added a whole new dimension. With a modem and e mail', one can share artwork with other artist from all over the globe. But ATC's themselves do have rules. The only rules being that the small works of art are, (1) exchanged and not sold, and (2) that they must be 2 ½ X 3 ½ inch or 64 X 89 mm in size.

14. Ephemera, which is a variety of paper and or produced items used in advertisement and daily life. Think along the terms of collage items that may have previously been taken for granted, such as stamps, envelopes, clipped images from magazines and newspapers, junk mail. The idea is to use what normally would have been thrown away, and give it new life. You are free to paint, draw, print, do wax resist, add fibers; trinkets... the possibilities are endless! Now get out there and create art, but be a part of a whole art world of its own.

15. Artist Card Trading Groups http://www.artist-trading-cards.ch/Artist trading cards: A Collaborative Cultural Performancehttp://www.artist-trading-cards.ch/ http://www.cedarseed.com/air/atc.htmlCedar Seedhttp://www.cedarseed.com/air/atc.html http://www.moderngypsy.com/atc/Artist site of Artist Trading Cardshttp://www.moderngypsy.com/atc/ http://www.mailartist.com/kiyotei/ATC.htmlMailart http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ArtTradingCards/Email discussion grouphttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/ArtTradingCards/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alteredbooks/Email discussion grouphttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/alteredbooks/ http://www.nitaleland.comNita Leland Websitehttp://www.nitaleland.com

16. Modern American Abstract Art Lots of devoted artists create one work of art EVERYDAY! To develop and explore your talents, interests and ability to pursue a dream in a concrete way, art cards make sense! Anticipate an in the near future!