De-composite Portraits: Five Peculiar Caricatures of the Democratic Six-Years

Abstract

During the democratic Six-Years, five caricatures were published in the satirical weekly journals El Caos and El Lío that resemble, at least formally, the composite heads painted in the sixteenth century by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. This article examines the circumstances in which the five drawings appeared and are compared with the paintings of the Cinquecento artist through the study of the original composite heads made by the philosopher Roland Barthes. The objective underlying this exercise of equalization is the analysis of the process and the resources that could be used by the two authors of the cartoons.

Keywords

• Giuseppe Arcimboldo
• Eduardo Sojo
• Tomás Padró
• Sexenio democrático
• prensa y público
• caricatura
• tropo
• iconografía.