French Postale Rubber Stamp
There's a certain "low-art" or "no art" element to this craze (one does not need a lot of artistic talent to ink a stamp and press it to paper), which has parallels to the love victorian ladies had for scrap and scrapbooking, and the mania that 18th-century ladies had for their print rooms. Yes, it's true that using stamps (usually) means that one did not create the image integrated into the project or collage. However, let us remember that Matisse himself spent a lot of time collaging at the end of his career. One can use stamps creatively and artistically. Composition, color and found objects are all part of the creation.
